Word: stones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hoods' Thanksgiving dinner is particularly telling: the awkwardness of trying to fit into a traditional familial mold is immediately apparent, but the source of that awkwardness is much harder to locate. In a dining room designed in functional '70s style--sleek metal chairs scrape against a stone floor, and large windows display the gloomy weather outside--Ben Hood asks his 14-year-old daughter Wendy (Christina Ricci) to say grace. Wendy can't take him seriously, so instead she delivers a monologue thanking God for the food they are about to gorge themselves upon, and then begins rambling about...
...Kline and Allen are especially adept at communicating their pain to the audience, even though they can't even communicate with each other. But Kline's character in particular comes across as clownish, because he's never given a chance to emerge from his foolish, self-indulgence. Ricci's stone-faced Wendy Hood is interesting to watch but difficult to penetrate. Sigourney Weaver's sultry next-door neighbor remains a mystery throughout the film. Lee suggests that every character is going through some sort of emotional turmoil, no matter how hard they may be trying not to let it show...
Becker takes the stage like a modern day Fred Flintstone in blue jeans, work-boots and a T-shirt which reveals a definite gut. The set resembles a half-prehistoric, half-modern bachelor pad, complete with stone slab chair and hamper full of dirty laundry...
With songs like "Ocean" and "Stone Feeling," the Pietasters also display their instrumental talents. Throughout Willis, Toby Hansen (trumpet), Jeremy Roberts (trombone) and Alan Makranczy (saxo-phone) provide listeners with terrific melodies to elaborate on the ska beat. Within a half a minute of the start of most songs, however, the vocals come on and destroy any satisfaction the tracks could offer...
...response to a question about her position on the American political spectrum, Skocpol quoted Sen. Paul Well stone (D-Minn.), who has claimed to "represent the democratic wing of the Democratic Party...