Word: sane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...care to analyze her craft. Ask her why she makes movies, and she roars back, "Filthy lucre!" So we turn to James Ivory, her director on Howards End and on this fall's Remains of the Day, to enumerate her gifts. "First of all," he says, "Emma is sane. That's a wonderful thing. She also has intelligence, tremendous acting talent and terrific style. She's funny and fun to be with -- always. American actors mercilessly dissect everything. They worry and wonder about it all the time. The British tend to act instinctually." As Christopher Reeve, who also appears...
Retirement! Retirement! Again we'll be sane...
...Feeding the squirrels] is one of the reasons I'm sane now," says Park. "They're really helpful...
...Because otherwise sane people believe -- against all logic -- that it somehow undermines democracy to project the result of an election before some people have voted. The networks are not to blame. Under pressure from Congress and sundry goody-goodies, they have agreed not to "characterize the outcome" in any state until the polls (the real polls) have closed in that state. This hasn't satisfied some Westerners, who complain about announced results from the East before polls have closed in the West...
...beans." "Is it always or, is it never and?" she asks in her brilliant last song "Moments in the Woods," capturing these characters' inability to take charge of their lives. Roemer has one of the finest voices in the show and the necessary stage presence to keep her sane and ordinary character from being overshadowed by the more flashy creatures around her. Where other actors have a tendency to drift downstage and sing all their numbers facing front with their hands at their sides, Roemer knows how to handle herself on stage and is consistently good...