Word: soundly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...safety on the highways, "buckle up" may no longer be sound advice in every situation. When the National Transportation Safety Board began an investigation in 1984 on seat-belt performance, a surprising pattern emerged: backseat passengers who had used lap belts suffered more serious and fatal injuries in head-on collisions than did those with no restraints at all. The NTSB has called on the Department of Transportation to require shoulder harnesses in the backseats of new cars, a regulation that could take effect by the end of the year...
With Miami Vice and his terrific debut feature Thief, Writer-Director Michael Mann honed his nouveau slick style: a strong silent leading man with a superb supporting cast, a flair for intelligent camerabatics, a bold, controlled color scheme, an assertive avant-rock sound track. Here he has found another subject to suit that disquieting style. Manhunter should keep viewers riveted throughout, and queasy through the next full moon...
...their tracks to proclaim, "I'm in the prime of my life," or "Kids lose everything unless there's someone to look after them." Does any twelve-year-old talk with such analysand self-awareness? The boys may be just scruffy outsiders in the small-town '50s, but they sound like a Classics Illustrated version of Bruno Bettelheim...
...eager for adventure but anxious about the changes and dark revelations that come with learning how little they know about their lovers. That nice guy lying next to you in bed, breathing in your rhythm, smiling in his sleep -- what demons sleep within him? And why does his snore sound like a gentle bzzzzz...
Although Rosenthal's tempos tend toward the inflexible, sometimes leaving sluggish singers to catch up as best they can, he never swamps them in Wagnerian sound. Clean and elegant, Rosenthal's interpretation reflects an approach one does not usually associate with Wagner. "Some people will be surprised," he says, "but the Ring is lots of fun." In a production that compels rethinking Wagner's monument, the casting of Rosenthal is the most daring element...