Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scenery. It is no accident that Lonesome Dove begins, "When Augustus came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake--not a very big one ... 'You pigs git,' Augustus said, kicking the shoat. 'Head on down to the creek if you want to eat that snake.'" The gritty particularity of the snake, the pigs and McCrae's irritation start things off right. It is acceptable for Augustus to be a hero--which he is, flat out--if his stage is a ridiculous outpost so man-, woman- and dog-forsaken that not even the rattlesnakes are safe...
...rafting trip through nine miles of turbulence on Wyoming's Snake River--with a flotilla of reporters and security men paddling furiously behind--was the high point of the President's first full week of vacation. Clinton also suffered happily through a steady drizzle at the annual Jackson Hole Rodeo. And, inevitably, he played golf...
...locals can afford only to dream. That, at least, is the route taken by young Stella (Georgina Cates, in an affecting star debut), who joins the troupe and falls in love with its dashing director (Grant). For Stella he's just the wrong person: homosexual, vicious, smooth as snake oil. Grant here is wonderfully assured, residing inside this rotter as if he'd been waiting to play the role all his life. It's one of the good things to say about the actor: in big parts or small, he just wants...
...Sunset Strip. His recent talk show tour to apologize for his encounter with Divine Brown has become very good publicity for his two upcoming films "An Awfully Big Adventure" and "Nine Months." Grant does wonderful work as an actor in the former movie as a vicious, smooth-as-snake-oil director of a theater troupe in postwar Liverpool. Grant is assured, residing inside this rotter as if he'd been waiting to play the role all his life. But it is the other, lesser performance in "Nine Months" that showcases Grant in the role Hollywood wants: Movie Star. The film...
...think it's high time people stand up and say, 'Look, you are missing nothing online,' " he says. Stoll has written a controversial new book, Silicon Snake Oil, that he describes as a "yellow warning flag" to would-be networkers. Beware, he says, that when you enter cyberspace, "you are entering a nonexistent universe ... a soluble tissue of nothing...