Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soundstages designed by Santo Loquasto. Narrow cobblestone streets, gaslights and footbridges enhance the gloomy atmosphere. Shimmery ponds and a fake night sky further increase the mood and the comedy. Allen establishes the tone of the picture when a mystic (Charles Cragin), who uses his sense of smell to sniff out the strangler, leads to a torch-bearing mob through the winding streets...
...past is any indication, Kaplan's ability to sniff out the truth has not been infallible. Two years ago, the Star ran a story about the slide into homelessness of Peter Criss, the former drummer for the rock band Kiss. It turned out to be a hoax...
...plan was beaverish: to walk, sniff, conn and brood every one of the county's 12 central grids, 744 sq. mi. on the U.S. Geological Survey maps. With much satisfaction, he reports it was Thomas Jefferson who directed that all of the nation except the already mapped East be ruled into grids, never mind natural or political borders. "Chase County sleeps north-south or east- west," he digresses (if that is possible in a project that depends on serendipity), "the square rooms squared with the world, the decumbent folk like an accountant's figures neatly between ruled lines, their slumber...
...cleanest credit record in town. "How's his payment history?" one computer may ask another. "He pays early!" the other may flash back. "Aw, c'mon," the first computer will say. "No, really! Here -- look!" Whereupon the first computer will look over the second computer's shoulder and sniff its perfume, and airline reservations clerks around the country will frown and say, "Sorry, my system just went down." All because...
...hilariously traditional cowman (Jack Palance). The script acknowledges a structural debt to Red River, but its spin is strictly Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel: sharply turned observations on contemporary angst blended with agreeable sentiments by Parenthood's writers. O.K., it would be nice if this film paused to sniff the locoweed, but director Ron Underwood yippee-ki-yos the yuppies quite smartly along a pretty fresh trail...