Word: schoolgirlisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That McGann did - not just flipping the action to New Zealand's South Island, whose dark, claustrophobic peaks he thought best reflected the story's mood, but ending the film where the book begins: uncovering the body of a murdered schoolgirl. Instead, the film is concerned with a different kind of discovery: what happens when a man returns home after 17 years abroad to find an old girlfriend (Jodie Rimmer) whose wildly imaginative daughter might just be his. In this sense, McGann remains true to the book: In My Father's Den is about the sexual charge that can dance...
...chick in Japan, my brother should have no problem getting an essay topic. Alas, Isaac was interested in the girl, not the spiritual epiphany. I had planned our trip from Boston, preparing for an exotic land of kimonos and haikus; my brother packed his bags in Taiwan, thinking of schoolgirl uniforms and manga comics. Isaac won. As Last Samurai morphed into Lolita, even I became an accomplice. The best way to snap pictures of unsuspecting females is to position your frumpy sister in front of them. Schoolgirls on bikes, young mothers at the mall, Shinto priestesses on festival barges?...
...tell the grandchildren that you saw Ben Whishaw?s first great role.? In black garb, with a thin white face, his crimson lips the only color in his array, Whishaw does attract attention. He gets vamped by every woman from his flirtatious mom to Ophelia (Samantha Whittaker), dressed in schoolgirl plaids and played as a sexually precocious teeny-bopper who needs Hamlet as much as he needs his own onanistic misery. He stretches in his chair like a Catalan death puppet, and often holds his head as if it would split from shame or rage. He might implode to suicide...
...began with the first scene, and he cajoled, pleaded, bullied and wheedled. He would say things like "No, you're looking like a schoolgirl in this" or "Let him have it. Don't be such a wimp...
...JUDO When she was a teenage schoolgirl with an 84-match unbeaten streak, judo master Ryoko Tani was known as Ryoko Tamura; she changed her name last December when she married Japanese pro baseball player and fellow Olympian Yoshimoto Tani in a $3 million Paris wedding that was televised across Japan. Tani's popularity in her home country is as outsized as she is pint-sized, but that only makes the gold-medal pressure on the 1.46-m judoka all the more intense. She was upset in the 1992 and 1996 Games, having to settle for silver on each occasion...