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...imagine this: a mainstream American movie, rife with violent and often murderous behavior, yet so densely plotted, so richly peopled, that you can't summarize it in a sentence. Or a paragraph. Or several of them. Imagine, as well, a film set in the exotic past--Los Angeles in the noirish '50s--that tends to make the mass audience skittish. And imagine too a cast of terrific actors that lacks the reassuring presence of a megastar who can, as they say, open a picture...
...operated on a virtual shoestring for more than twice as long as intended by its original design specifications. While it is not sophisticated by U.S. standards, it has made valuable contributions to the body of scientific knowledge. By comparison, America's aerospace program has been historically bloated, redundant and rife with its own spectacular failures, including the Hubble Space Telescope, Apollo 13, failed Vanguard launches and, yes, the unfortunate deaths in the Challenger disaster. I applaud the joint space effort. There is no need for a space race among nations, but there is a need for an international effort...
...fundraising efforts before the 1994 elections paid off during friendly Republican questioning, doggedly compared the NPF to the Democratic Leadership Council, a party forum headed by one of his questioners, Sen. Joseph Lieberman. And while everyone seemed to be having fun, Barbour's deposition testimony of a week ago, rife with troubling contradictions to yesterday's testimony by Michael Baroody, dissipated wanly Thursday into a mist of one-liners and vague denials. "I cannot tell you what the Democrats did and didn't do, but I can tell you the Republicans did not purposely, knowingly or intentionally violate...
...illustrations of Gerald Scarfe (who served as production designer), challenges the eye: blink, and you'll miss the sign in the sky indicating that Marilyn Monroe isn't just a star, she's a whole constellation. The script by Musker, Clements, Bob Shaw, Donald McEnery and Irene Mecchi is rife with Oedipus riffs, Achilles spiels, Zeus zingers and roman-numeral jokes--"Somebody call IX-I-I." The Greeks had a word for it: shtick...
...come women's magazines aren't rife with lame plays on the word knocker? "Women are comfortable talking intimately to other women. Guys are not comfortable with that." So says Art Cooper, the editor in chief of GQ, who, unlike Vogue's Anna Wintour, must somehow find a way to talk intimately to his readers without provoking embarrassed sniggers...