Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wrong. For the makers of many summer films, the storytelling art is passe. These talented fellows want to dream up worlds that can exist only in the cinema. Call their pictures dyna-movies, for they are dynamic rather than dramatic. They trade in sensation, in the jolts a moviegoer gets...
Twenty years ago, Nikita Khrushchev, a nonperson living under virtual house arrest in a dacha outside Moscow, created an international sensation when the first volume of his memoirs was published by Little, Brown & Co. The Soviet authorities denounced Khrushchev Remembers as a CIA hoax. A number of Western experts suspected...
The deposed leader's son remembers the decision to conduct an early experiment in glasnost and the international sensation that his father's memoirs created.
Some moviemakers think this summer's crop may include some disasters. "I can't imagine a more boring lineup of films," says one anxious executive. "The costs are out of hand, and the need for a safety net causes people to make formulas and sequels. I have this incredible sensation...
True to its theme of emotional cannibalism in a dead-end society, The Cook has plenty of eating and excreting. Its characters, sad creatures swathed in Jean-Paul Gaultier couture, gorge on their own swollen hunger for sex, control, revenge. Similarly, Greenaway -- inspired by Jacobean revenge plays and Dutch masters...