Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conceit is promising at the outset. The highly effective opening scenes show a dove like flock of young choristers running out from under the dripping Gothic gargoyles of a London church. Among them we find the darkly clad figure of a sullen young man in his early 20s (Sting). This stranger begins deliberately accosting passerby on the rainy street with an "accidental" jostle and a subsequent "Why, you're the last person I expected to see!" Someone finally falls for this deception--Thomas E. Bates(Denholm Eihott) a harried middle-aged writer of mass-produced inspirational verse. His daughter Patricia...
...score, mostly original music performed by his band. The Police, with additional numbers by Squeeze and the Go Go's, fails to match the mood and action of the film, adding to the disjointed impression. Sting's contribution as an actor, however, is excellent. He carries the Malcolm McDowell villainous schoolboy role a step or two higher in intensity: in fact, the two even resemble each other somewhat physically, especially in the cold glare of the eyes. Denholm Elliott characterized every feature of Thomas to perfection, and Joan Plowright manages to make her character warm and sympathetic under the circumstances...
...fame that surrounded that implacably durable Queen Bee of the art world, Louise Nevelson. Bourgeois belonged to no groups and was a complete loner; her work appeared to have a queer troglodytic quality, like something pale under a log, the vulnerable product of obsession but I with a sting in its tail...
...didn't want to see any celebration," he would say several days after the initial sting had worn off "I was the first one in the locker room I just sat down and didn't do anything for a long time...
...Sting II came as a shock because the three employees dismissed last week were very highly placed in the company and had broad access to classified material. The accused: Lewis Eggebrecht, a senior engineer who was chief architect of the IBM personal computer, the company's fastest seller; Peter Stearns, another senior engineer, who headed an important product-development team; and William Erdman. an office-systems product-line manager...