Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senile silences speak volumes) has a safe place in that house, superficially unchanged since she raised her children. But she is, in fact, the last holdout on a gentrifying block, and the world beyond it has become utterly incomprehensible to her. Indeed, the movie's most crucial and comic scene occurs when she locks herself out and must apply to her silly- deadly, yup-scale neighbors for help...
...singers' soul-saving urgency flows from the Adventist teaching that the Second Coming could occur virtually any day now. Tenor Mark Kibble, who devised the distinct six-part sound, scans the drug scene and other manifest modern evils and concludes, "We are truly living in the last days before Christ comes. Because of that, we are more intense in showing people they need not be subject to this world...
They should have filmed Tama Janowitz's publicity campaign. It was a lot more entertaining, and possibly more sociologically edifying, than Slaves of New York, the collection of short stories about the downtown art scene that book flacks so heedlessly hyped to bestsellerdom. Alas, the movie people got stuck with the book and with its author as screenwriter. And now the public is stuck with a movie that compares rather unfavorably to periodontal work in amusement value...
...waiting for nearly an hour noticed Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen take a seat. Ten minutes went by, and the Oxford-imported scholar waited calmly next to the students. A harried doctor soon emerged, though, and with a "Right this way, Mr. Sen," whisked the professor away from the scene. The students continued waiting...
...scene that is worse than a game being played under the lights in Wrigley Field--kids go up to their favorite players with ball, pen and $10 in hand...