Word: rude
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Elizabeth Hurley. Snarly musclemen and tortured teen types, the Stallones and Depps, are supposed to misbehave; it's part of their public profile. But when the sinner is an Oxford grad peddling a boyish, domestic charm--the last good hope of vanishing gentility--he can expect to face the rude music. On his field trip into the Sunset night, Grant went out of character, played disastrously against type, punctured a popular illusion. As many moviegoers saw it, he didn't cheat on Hurley so much as he cheated them...
...front. Whatever is scabrous and saw-toothed and in-your-face is probably brought to you by the major labels and the big studios. For parents, the pervasive electronic culture can start to look like some suspect stranger who hangs around their kids too much, acting loutish, rude and drunk...
...knowing way, the hit movie Casper mines this same dark soil. On its face, it is a high-gloss update of the "friendly ghost" who starred in 55 cartoons between 1946 and 1959, a long-running comic book and a short-lived 1979 TV series. Director Brad Silberling mixes rude slapstick for the kids with pop-culture cues for their parents, including gag cameos by Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson and Ghostbusters' Dan Aykroyd. The movie even has its own theme-park ride, a kind of human car wash. All jolly enough. But in its haunted heart, Casper is another invitation...
...only thing people work for is money," he notes. "Something has been lost." Like most of his era, Evdokimov has little to say of Stalin and the terror. "Maybe some of the parents of my friends were dealt a blow by Stalin," he says. "But it was rude to talk about...
...second doubles, freshman Tomas Blake and sophomore Josh Hausman lost 8-6, while at third doubles freshman Philip Tseng and junior Adam Valkin were given a rude awakening with an 8-0 loss...