Word: rhyming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...murder scenes are also handled particularly well; often a character will expire so unobtrusively that the audience discovers their death at about the same time as the actors do. Through it all, the nursery rhyme hangs over the mantle, predicting each crime and challenging both the actors and the audience to figure them...
...people begin dying and a storm prevents any escape from Indian Island, it becomes apparent that Mr. Owen is one of the guests and he plans to kill the entire company the same way the "Ten Little Indians" die in a framed nursery rhyme which hangs over the mantle of the living room...
Unlike other rappers, LL likes to play with words. He won't go for the easy rhyme. What other rapper would match "Jimmy Olson" with "green, golden Molson?" Or who would even think of dubbing a few bars of the Cheers theme song? Only...
Maybe Mike Leigh's High Hopes is too realistic and too intricate to be called a nursery rhyme for moderns. But he and his actors and designers do push out beyond the purely naturalistic. All the figures in his dismal urban landscape carry a carefully calculated moral weight, and their story is clearly intended as a microcosmic portrait of contemporary English life. So call it, perhaps, a fable on the sneak. And call it something else too: yet another carefully handmade ornament of the new British cinema, which includes such small recent marvels as My Beautiful Laundrette; Rita...
...knows Trump well does see a rhyme and reason. Trump is a brilliant dealmaker with almost no sense of his own emotions or his own ( identity, this man says. He is a kind of black hole in space, which cannot be filled no matter what Trump does. Looking toward the future, this associate foresees Trump building bigger and bigger projects in his attempts to fill the hole but finally ending, like Howard Hughes, a multibillionaire living all alone in one room...