Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Michael Mann loves bad guys. Loves their drive, the snarl in their stare, the swagger they have learned and earned. From his first feature film, 1981's Thief, to the 1995 Heat and his swankily corrosive TV shows Miami Vice and Crime Story, the writer-director has toured the underworld and found it a great place to visit...
SPIDER-MAN Disentangled from legal snarl, he'll finally get his own movie. Buy cobweb futures...
...Offspring is a best-selling punk band, but it isn't a great one: the group lacks the caustic poetry of Nirvana, the righteous snarl of Rancid and the amiable snottiness of Green Day. In its new album the Offspring attempts to make a virtue of its creative limitations: the songs on Americana are basic and direct, and a few of the tracks, including The Kids Aren't Alright, have a brutal appeal. But the band's weakness for cheap laughs soon grows tiresome--there's even a punk-rock parody of the easily mocked standard Feelings. For a group...
...things about going to movies and going to plays once you start acting, I guess, not that I'm even close to professional, it's just fun to watch people on screen or on stage, do certain--have certain idiosyncrasies. Robert De Niro puts his mouth into a little snarl and, very quietly, commands the whole screen, but it's just certain things like that that you just pick up on people. It can be anybody, from people who go here [Harvard], to very famous screen and stage actors, that you can just pick up things and steal [from], because...
...doings of sumo wrestlers and high-class prostitutes, gave a rich subject matter to 18th century graphic artists like Suzuki Harunobu, Kitagawa Utamaro and the theater caricaturist Toshusai Sharaku, whose image of the actor Otani Oniji III playing a samurai's manservant, all red-rimmed eyes and stylish snarl, is a deliciously succinct expression of fictive bloody-mindedness. Through the medium of prints, the range of things that could be depicted widened to take in all Japan. Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji and Ando Hiroshige's Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido are both travelogues...