Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What helped was another police beating, 3,000 miles away. Seven days after Colbert's encounter, the nation's attention shifted from Kuwait to Los Angeles, where Rodney King had been beaten senseless by a gang of vengeful cops. As weeks passed and police everywhere pondered the King horror, the Philadelphia department's internal investigation was leading commanders to a logical conclusion; this was no time for a cover-up. So they released photos of Ryan and Blondie, who had been suspended during the probe, to local newspapers. A flood tide followed. Complaints about the cops' behavior inundated the department...
...reader have self-identified as either one or the other of the above. But why bother? To what extent are the movies available to us really bifurcated on such a simple line? "That arty stuff is boring," complains Average Joe Popcorn. "Those action pictures are so senseless," scoffs Elitist Joe Coffeeshop. Neither of these statements are universally true, of course, which brings us back to Henry James. And to vampires...
...wants to be so revolutionary, but it doesn't stop and think about how it distributes itself." Keene says he used to routinely spend two weeks on "a beautiful landscape" and have it end up "in the lobby of some law office," earning him about $400. It bored him senseless, and he felt no connection to an audience or to himself, so he started doing smaller pieces and selling them in bars and at rock shows. He says that by year's end he will have sold 17,000 paintings in six years, and it's O.K. with him that...
Americans at War (University Press of Mississippi; 200 pages; $28) is a new collection of Ambrose's essays that demonstrates deep knowledge and common sense about mankind's most senseless activity. Its author, whose military experience ended in 1955 after two years of R.O.T.C. at the University of Wisconsin, deftly avoids the punditry and globaloney of armchair adjutants and mediagenic experts...
This wouldn't be a problem if Mad City weren't such a character-driven piece. Echoing Billy Wilder's 1952 Ace In The Hole, the film aligns two distinct personalities--the hardened reporter and the simple, down-on-his-luck everyman--and pits them both against the senseless juggernaut of popular culture. "This movie is about people," Gavras says, and the people who star in it are indeed its finest assets. Dustin Hoffman plays Max Brackett, a hotshot national news reporter who has been demoted to a backwater affiliate station in northern California after a mysterious incident involving celebrity...