Word: smith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colors and tantalizing smells. I lament the loss of the shopkeepers who manned the stalls of the bazaars and the women shrouded in mystery who frequented them. I mourn for the children, now maimed or dead, who will never see the wonders of this once vibrant city. PHILIP E. SMITH Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Meanwhile, a mind-body duo of scientist (Jeff Goldblum) and fighter pilot (Will Smith) are placed on their respective traintracks of plot-line-toward-hero-ism. Rounding out the cast are stirring love interests ranging from noble stripper (Vivica Fox) to First Lady (Mary McDonnell) and a motley crew of often comic characters, including Star Trek's Bret Spiner ("Data") as a scientist in a secret...
Despite the pyrotechnics, the characters emerge fairly intact, avoiding that corrugated card-board feel. The President, as played by Pullman inspiringly develops from Mr. Smith into J.F.K. Will Smith, as Captain Hitler, brings out the comic potential of fighter-pilot bravado when confronted by a threat so ludicrously daunting as a space invasion. And, exercising the techno-babble he learned in "Jurassic Park," Jeff Goldblum staves off the humorous bickering of his worrying father (Judd Hirsch) to save the world with the scientist's explain-it-all manner...
...film has a salutary scope and bustle and enough kick in the fireball special effects to make audiences cheer--sure, it's the end of the world, but you can still party like it's 1999. As Will Smith says, "You can sell an alien attack better than the old days when you could see the zipper on the back of the alien's costume." Minute by minute, though, things look mighty familiar. If Forrest Gump was Everyman, ID4 is Everymovie, a browse through the whole film catalog: The Day the Earth Stood Still, Strangelove, Close Encounters, Alien...
...from heterosexual students who have probably switched to oral sex from other forms of sexual expression for its purported safety. It is important to inform everybody, irrespective of sexual orientation, that practicing oral sex isn't the easy way to avoid HIV and AIDS. RAGUPATHY KANNAN Fort Smith, Arkansas Via E-mail...