Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE risen from the grave to see the three-and-a-half hour production of his The Winter's Tale currently being mounted at the Agassiz Theatre, he probably would have suffered a massive heart attack after the first five minutes. But had Shakespeare survived the initial shock of director Paul Warner's very twentieth-century interpretation of his next to last play, the bard would have realized he was watching a very creative mind at work...
...Game has become legend on the West Coast. It was greeted with jubilation in Berkeley, which had gone into the game 13-point underdogs to the John Elway-led Cardinals. Prominently displayed on California chests this summer were T-shirts diagraming the entire miracle run. The loss brought shock and dismay to the Stanford fans, who immediately began slotting revenge...
...that glaring Friday noontime in Dallas. The moment 20 years ago when one learned the news became precisely fixed in the memory, the mind stopping like a clock just then. It is Kennedy's deathday, not his birthday, that we observe. History abruptly left off, and after the shock had begun to pass, the mythmaking began-the mind haunted by the hypothetical, by what might have been...
...capacity Mojmilo Olympic Village, which is a series of high-rise apartment buildings, a special hotel for competitors in the Nordic events was built cantilevered on the face of the mountain. Athletes with icicles in their beards will begin to report there in January, the better to muffle the shock of the Sarajevo winter...
Even in its horrendously truncated U.S. version (some 40 min. have been cut), Possession is a more engaging movie than it has any right to be. Zulawski's images are attractively dour: gray and brown, with the only assertive color an occasional shock of blood red. Adjani is a sullen ravisher, gorgeous and half bonkers. Like the movie itself, Adjani has the power of her pretentiousness...