Word: short
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flip side of phenomenon is fluke. Blair Witch, a film that antagonizes as many folks as it enthralls, could be as fleeting a fad as Deely Bobbers, and with no profound meaning for the future of film--except perhaps that struggling filmmakers with a marketable attitude will for a short, happy time be overpaid by studio bosses hoping against reason for another Blair Witch...
...Amblad, Will Burke and Adam"Waka" Green) plainly state their mission--to present all of Shakespeare's plays--and take off like horses from a starting gate. They begin with a comparably lengthy rendition of Romeo and Juliet, continue with truncated versions of the Tragedies, and, with time running short, condense the Comedies into a skit in double time, and further distill the Histories into a few symbolic football plays. The Compleat Works ends in a rush when the players boil Hamlet down to five breath-taking words...
...would be more like cartoon characters than anything. It is overtly hilarious, and like a cartoon, the play organizes its humor into episodic bursts. Each "play" (like Romeo and Juliet) or group of plays (like the Comedies) is distinctly hilarious and could easily stand on its own as a short skit. The Titus Andronicus cooking show, the Othello rap, and the Histories football game were each side-splittingly funny...
...None too soon. Day traders' favorite stocks have long been Internet and other high-tech companies prized for their big price swings. Since April, Net stocks have fallen on hard times, revealing many formerly brilliant day traders to be little more than lucky novices. Unfamiliar with strategies like selling short or hedging with options, many have lost big and quit. But the flushing out is far from complete...
...Stepashin." Putin now contemplates entering the presidential race with the endorsement of the deeply unpopular Yeltsin, which is widely viewed as akin to the kiss of death. That?s if he survives the political life of a Yeltsin prime minister, which these days, is increasingly nasty, brutish and short...