Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scrappy intelligence makes the work of all four of these directors stand out even when the songs they are visualizing aren't all that strong. Hip-hop king Combs' It's All About the Benjamins is a slight affair on record, but in Hunter's video it bursts into life. We see Combs, with his white-suited posse, running through a forest; the scene shifts to a stone quarry, drenched in floodlights and filled with revelers; then we see Combs again, in black, rapping onstage as the film slips and slides in the projector--and that...
...weird thing about She's So Lovely is that a script by the impresario of improv, directed by his son, should become a tight, slight, goofy romance. As the lovestruck Eddie, Sean Penn denounces his wife's perfume as "a good smell to cover up bad smell." John Travolta, as the second husband of Eddie's beloved Maureen (Robin Wright Penn), snaps at his young stepdaughter, "You haven't lived long enough for me to argue with you. You're just a glorified piece of blue sky." The film has the soul of a sailor after a few drinks...
...BIOflex, a Florida company that sells magnetic wraps, claims in its literature that the magnetic field creates a slight electrical current that stimulates the nervous system and blocks the sensation of pain...
FORT WORTH, Texas: Ben Hogan, the golfer made of stone, died Friday at 84. Some called him "Bantam Ben," because he stood a slight 5-foot-8. Some called him "The Hawk" for the way he analyzed a course. But the Scots called him "The Wee Ice Mon." Because he was Ben Hogan. Hogan was the game's third-winningest player with 63 tour victories. He won nine major championships, four U.S. Open titles, the career Grand Slam and was the only person to win three Grand Slam events in a single season. But the Hogan Mystique was truly born...
...world champion New York Yankees left the diamond at Yankee Stadium following their 10-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers last Thursday night, manager Joe Torre caught the attention of the rookie righthander walking beside him. Torre, with a slight tip of his cap, indicated to the pitcher the proper way of acknowledging the cheers. So it was that Hideki Irabu, who didn't miss a sign all night, took off his cap one more time, held it aloft and waved to the crowd...