Word: smith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Johnson sees the current role of PBHA's acting chief operating officer, a position that will be vacated next month by Kenneth G. Smith, as an "impossible...
...freshmen change concentration in the fall of the ensuing year," said Associate Registrar Thurston A. Smith. For instance, some people are not accepted to Social Studies until their grades for the full year have been recorded, Smith said...
...fiercely told story. Smith and his actors catch the stunned manner of a culture that thinks postmodernism is a synonym for postemotionalism. They're always trying to be coolly affectless about hotly affecting issues, hoping blunt, acceptant talk about sexual congress will disarm the subtle pains it always implies. This is a newer, more interesting form of innocence than the '50s kind, and when their true feelings burst through, their breakdowns and breakups are really scary. Like Inventing the Abbotts, this movie knows that the questing phallus is the main source of youthful romantic angst. But Chasing Amy doesn...
...fairness, O'Connor and Hixon have to deal with more distractions than Smith does. Their film, based on the Sue Miller short story, is a period piece, set in 1957, when, especially in small, middle-American towns--they inform us, with a rather touching air of discovery--lots of people were repressed and also more class-conscious than they should have been. Jacey Holt (Billy Crudup) is unafflicted by the former condition, but the latter has him distinctly under the weather. He lives poor with his much nicer younger brother Doug (Joaquin Phoenix) and his widowed mother (Kathy Baker...
...Kevin Smith, by contrast, owes nothing to nobody. As he proved with a few bucks and some black-and-white film stock in Clerks, he's an original, a deadpan, dead-on observer of the whole Gen-X mess. In Chasing Amy, he has moved up slightly--color film, more than one setting, scenes with actual extras in them. But he's still a guy making two-shots of people talking about their troubles, working them through on the basis of faulty information and silly suppositions...