Word: soberness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just another pretty face: a pleasant, inoffensive actor who is just right for light entertainments like Chapter Two. It is brave enough for him to play the leading role that of an inarticulate factory workerin Hide in Plain Sight, since it is the kind of small, sober film no agent would regard as a good career move." But this is also Caan's debut as a director. To choose this true story of a man trying to find and then recover his children, who have been abducted by no less an institution than the U.S. Government...
...folks should relax. The Ramones may never sell records like Kiss, but their inspired, self-parodying lunacy and sideways sophistication have given an antic and raucous heartbeat to the often sober-sided American new wave. "I like people to take us seriously," insisted Lead Singer Joey to TIME'S John Buckman. "It's no joke, no novelty act. We're not clowns." The nice thing about the Ramones is that one can take them seriously and have a good laugh at the same time. Tunes like Sheena Is a Punk Rocker and Rockaway Beach are feckless, speedy...
...sequence" throughout Porter Square station. James Tyler's work is the ultimate object-installation: he sculpts life-sized human figures to be arraned in the park at Davis Square. I worry about these last two schemes. Dismembered hands and frozen bodies could have strange psychological affects on the less sober among...
...look twenty from behind and sixty face on." She gives Mountain Town a medieval European feel simply by looking down at one of its narrow lanes, "so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps, like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups, and then resumed its sober climb, until it had another fit of steps." The eerie, lonely beauty of perpetual dusk is condensed in an impression: "Northward above the mountain shoulder she saw one bright star shine clear, gone the next instant, lost, like the reflection in a raindrop or the glitter of mica in sand...
...passages between Gere and Hutton-thanks largely to the latter's open and vulnerable playing-are the most affecting in the film. She actually convinces one of her passion, despite its unlikely sociological grounding. There are moments when American Gigolo looks as if it might develop into a sober Shampoo...