Word: spellbindingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only in one masterful sequence at the center of the film, when Kapur pulls back the curtain on Elizabeth, rehearsing a momentous address to the bishops of England, does the Queen herself take center stage as a feminist vision of powerful womanhood--using intelligence, humor and finesse to spellbind her subjects with her own authority. For once, the film emerges from the shadow of its most prominent artistic antecedent: The Godfather. In this sequence, we watch as Elizabeth rewrites history, beginning her speech halting and uncertain, and slowly coming into her own as a power broker. This, finally...
Baseball isn't America's pastime. Nintendo is America's pastime. Baseball is full of management lockouts, under-.500 expansion clubs, and superstar cads who actually sell their autographs. To many, it has lost its power to truly spellbind and has become just another disenchanted thing in a world with a depressing deficit of magic. But watch a child playing Nintendo. See the way it ensnares the attention, engages the imagination. It's the modern, rough equivalent of how a youngster might have felt watching Hank Aaron hit one into the cheap seats...