Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, procure a copy of America's best-loved cookbook and shred it thoroughly. Add to the mix one cookbook scion, one volatile editor and a panel of food experts from across the country. Season with $5 million. Stir in large cups of envy, greed, backbiting and publishing gossip. Let simmer over high heat for three years, producing plenty of hurt feelings and howls of outrage from some of the food experts. Should serve 500,000 helpings and maybe a lot more if garnished with big, crisp publicity lettuce...
Nowhere is this more apparent than in their untitled video project from the 1995 Venice Biennale, an extraordinary and epic look at the ordinary and ephemeral. The piece includes nearly 10 monitors showing over 80 hours of footage from Swiss life. Workers fix sewage lines or stir huge vats of cheese; cats are carefully judged at a pet show; a dentist drills a cavity; and a pulsing crowd moves to awful music and out-of-synch lights at a disco...
Tapping into the post-Cold War paranoia of nuclear arms falling into unknown hands, this wellpaced but predictable action/suspense thriller doesn't ever stir a step beyond the demands of its genre. Nicole Kidman and George Clooney deliver competent if unremarkable performances as the nuclear scientist and independent-minded military officer who team up to save the world from the self-destructive tendenies of a Harvard-graduated loony. --Jonathan B. Dinerstein...
...showing us the ambition and the ruthlessness of her character; her increasingly strained expression in the banquet scene of III.iv is simultaneously funny and painful to behold. And her sleepwalking scene in V.i is exquisitely performed. It is one of the few scenes in this production which seemed to stir any real emotional reaction...
Tapping into the post-Cold War paranoia of nuclear arms falling into unknown hands, this wellpaced but predictable action/suspense thriller doesn't ever stir a step beyond the demands of its genre. Nicole Kidman and George Clooney deliver competent if unremarkable performances as the nuclear scientist and independent-minded military officer who team up to save the world from the self-destructive tendencies of a Harvard-graduated loony...