Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This initial scene established both the tone and symbolism of the movie. Sophie, whom Irene hires, and who becomes the diva's personal maid as well as accompanist, is shown always in shadow, often in transit, and frequently on staircases. Indeed, her nondescript character becomes almost obtrusive in the film. Irene, by contrast, is invariably in the spotlight, observed not her elusive lover, Jacques (Samuel Labarthe). While Sophie is famished and shabbily dressed, a perpetual onlooker, Irene, the consummate actress, is adorned with smiles and the white dress she will wear in performance throughout the movie. Though the characters appears...
...enough action; too much cheerleading from the commentators; too much coy withholding of the video for key events until prime time. Yet nothing CBS Sports did was quite as embarrassing as the performance by the network's news division. Connie Chung spent 1 1/2 weeks playing Tonya Harding's shadow. And Dan Rather joined her in fake-cuddly promotional spots for the CBS Evening News that may drive away the few viewers it has left...
...said that if it returns to power it will not abide by the agreement for Palestinian self-rule. The National Religious Party, composed of the strictly Orthodox who, like Goldstein, are totally opposed to trading any part of the West Bank for peace, said the massacre had "cast a shadow on the entire people...
...black anti-Semitism anything new. On the contrary, it has for at least a quarter-century been hanging like a lengthening shadow over black intellectual and political life -- not quite so unabashedly ugly as now, perhaps, or so crudely inventive in its brutality, but nonetheless, a visible, and politically consequential, presence...
...exactly culled from the A.R.T. racks. Nuttinkhumin's elongated hat adds the perfect touch to his skimpy eunuch suit; Lucinda Lipps and Isis Melting look positively female. Medusa Pade is exquisite in her "differently dyed" green skin and creepy nails, with a reptilian hairpiece that casts a mean shadow and golden snakes that twine around her chest...