Word: smitten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more oddly languorous moments. The streets were deserted, apart from scattered corpses and rescue vehicles scavenging about like small birds. Abandoned by the losers, as yet unoccupied by the winners, the city seemed lost in its pause, as if reflecting on the raw brutality with which the victors had smitten the vanquished. "Almost the only people remaining," said Major Alan Balfour, a U.N. spokesman, "were the dead and dying...
Toro-Hernandez has what appears to be the most enviable role in the play--he's got two women completely smitten with him. He plays it extremely well, tailoring his demeanor to the different styles of attraction presented by the two women...
...except for reasons of infirmity, advancing age and incapacity," he says. "It holds the attention firmly, because there is always something new to learn, new discoveries to make." People who want a garden because the neighbor has one and hire someone else to install it may gradually be smitten by what's out there, want to know more, marvel at the changes each morning in the drape of a vine or the paths of the bees. Soon they will no longer have a garden; their gardens will have them...
...Before Sunrise. In the meantime, Mary-Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore (the former E.T. child star and teenage drug abuser who has matured into a confident young actress) have garnered praise for their performances in the current girl-bonding hit Boys on the Side. Critics have also been smitten by that other winsome (albeit unrelated) Parker, Sarah Jessica, who plays a witty copywriter and commitment-phobe in Miami Rhapsody...
Lloyd, the lead moron in Peter Farrelly's film, is played by Carrey, sublimely confident that he knows what he's doing as he attempts to return a briefcase full of funny money to a woman (Lauren Holly) with whom he is smitten. This involves a journey across America with Harry (Jeff Daniels), Lloyd's equally dense roommate, in a truck that looks like a gigantic sheep dog. In order to enjoy the pair's company, adult viewers must regress to those thrilling days of yesteryear when bodily dysfunction represented the height of hilarity. But Carrey (ably abetted here...