Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gored by a demon boar that is a protector of the great forest. His wound will kill him if he can't solve the mystery of his curse. He meets Eboshi (Minnie Driver), ruler of Iron Town, and her fiercest foe, San (Claire Danes), or Mononoke, which means spirit. They want to use him or escape him, as the forest gods and demons rise for a showdown that everyone is fated to lose...
...everybody should be a machine," in witty response to Jackson Pollock's proclamation, 21 years before, that "I am nature," the distance between artistic generations couldn't have been clearer. Here was the age-old struggle of the sacred and the profane updated; here was the earnestness of inner spirit vs. the irony of outer cool...
...iconic images of Jackie after J.F.K.'s murder, and his tabloid pictures of cars crashed and suicides, replaced dignity with glitz, marrying starstruck glamour to grisly death. Nothing since has seemed so electric and shallow, so perfect a mirror of what was happening to the state of America's spirit. The soulfulness of Pollock and the other Abstract Expressionists never stood a chance after Warhol--and no radical art movement has ever been bought up so quickly as Pop was by the public...
...keeps mice, plays Romeo (that's not a misprint) in the school play, and though occasionally exasperated by her mother, adores her funky, spunky spirit. As do we, for McTeer, the English actress who stunned Broadway in A Doll's House two seasons back, is a wonder--sweet and fierce, a creature of good instincts and bad (but reparable) judgments. She's probably never going to get anywhere very grand, but she's going to get there intact. You suspect her child--her only true love--may do better than that. Meantime, we have this movie--full of acceptant, sidelong...
...director, the actors, the scenic designer or the least-sung usher in the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia." I can't vouch for the ushers at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City, who are no less surly than usual, but mostly this Broadway revival gets into the right spirit. The set, a swath of brown prairie dominated by an expanse of blue sky, seems ready at any moment to disgorge the cast of Oklahoma!, and the story of a smooth-talking drifter named Starbuck who comes to a drought-plagued Western community and promises to bring rain is full...