Word: rigor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the only highlight of The Jewel of the Nile is that Kathleen Turner fans will have the opportunity to chart the progressive disintegration of Turner's Nino Cerrutti ensemble as she suffers through the rigor of desert living. For the rest of us, we'll just have to wait for the next dose of Romance, sure to arrive before we know...
...most successful aspect of Jagged Edge is the rigor with which it keeps us guessing. We are manipulated throughout the film in such a way that our uncertainty is kept tantalized until, literally, the last few seconds of the last scene. It is this reliance on mental, rather than physical, discomfort that allies Jagged Edge more closely with Hitchcock than with Halloween...
...temperate mood is transforming the ways in which the nation works, plays and socializes. New attitudes toward careers, fitness and the very image of what we are and wish to become are being altered. Americans are tackling the entrenched social problems of abusive drinking with a new rigor. The neotemperance has already inspired tough drunk-driving laws to combat highway bloodshed (see following story). Basic to it all: people are drinking lighter and drinking less, and seem to be proud of it. A new poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., showed that only 67% of the nation...
...will stop to admire the sight of a Texas fishing boat cutting through the muddy water and purple sky, or linger over the electric heat in the slow dance of Madigan and Harris before their ideals fatally collide. But once it gets going, Alamo Bay delivers its argument with rigor and passion...
...conclusion of the play seems a bit on the corny side, it is, in light of the overall tone of the production, appropriately uplifting. The play makes no pretensions of exploring moral conflict with any real rigor, and it is in fact precisely because the cast sidesteps the temptation to treat the show as a spinoll of Sister Mary Ignatius that it works so well...