Word: solemnness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...giving, his lobbying and his rise to become the Democratic Party's new finance chairman--suggests that at least one Democrat's generosity might have yielded a policy payoff. It also suggests to critics that people like Solomont might not be the best suited to carry out Clinton's solemn promises to, as he said last week, "clean up the system...
...stick with The Friends of Freeland (Knopf; 508 pages; $26), an amiable and decidedly quirky novel. Its narrator, Eggert Oddason, is chief speechwriter and grand vizier to Freeland's President, a gifted though alcoholic giant named Hannibal Hannibalsson. After 20 years of ever decreasing coherence, Hannibalsson breaks a solemn promise to retire and runs for, or lurches blearily toward, a fifth five-year term. Can he win? His opponent is a woodenhead, and being booze-soaked is no bar to high office, since that is pretty much the permanent condition of most of the population. But Hannibalsson's administration...
...show no awareness of the tragedy of the Holocaust and how seriously it must be taken. But in Greenbaum's piece, the humor arose entirely from the thought that here, in this instance, the CKS is fictitiously shown making jokes where jokes are so obviously inappropriate--making jokes about solemn scenes in Schindler's List. Greenbaum's humor relied on its dramatization of the idea that the Holocaust is not a joking matter. We regret that this may have caused some confusion, but we stand by our decision to print the piece as it appeared in our issue. --Jeremy Friedman...
...Rosemary Harris, Charlton Heston, Derek Jacobi, Jack Lemmon, John Mills, Robin Williams, Kate Winslet and the Duke of Marlborough, to name but a dozen -- in the second longest film released by a major studio (after ?Cleopatra?). To his credit, the actor-director-adapter approached this job not as a solemn duty or an egotistical stunt, but in the sensible belief that the greatest work in dramatic literature damn well deserved to be filmed in full. Next to this, all other movie versions, from Laurence Olivier's to Mel Gibson's, seem like samplings, a Reduced Shakespeare Company run-through...
...year's end it's as easy to gorge on new movies as on holiday dinner. Some 40 films are on view, many as solemn as a Christmas sermon; we consider 10 here. Three are docudramas about challenges to the legal system. Three are tales of senior citizens in decay or defiance. Another three are comic studies of dire events: serial killing, an alien invasion, going home to mother. And it wouldn't be Christmas without a film of some masterwork by a 19th century novelist; this year it's Henry James. Below, a few reasons to visit your local...