Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bitter cold and darkness of a Russian winter, Muscovites depend on Mosenergo, the capital's principal supplier of heat and electricity, to survive. It's a relationship that has also weathered virtually every kind of political storm during the 20th century, and even earlier. "We provided warmth and light under 'our little father the Czar,' and when 'our people' [the communists] came in," says Sergei Rumyantsev, Mosenergo's deputy director general. "Now we do it under the democrats, because they need us as well. We have nothing to do with politics...
...letters and offering to pay them $1 a word--not bad for the magazine world and extraordinary for the Web. "I spend the majority of every day thinking about how best to communicate with writers," says Field. "And that's what did it." The letters work. Moody (The Ice Storm, Purple America), who doesn't use the Web and can't imagine anyone reading onscreen, got half a dozen of the letters. "They kept sending me letters saying, 'I love your work. I love your work.' And I kept saying, 'I don't have any time. I have nothing...
Forget the dictates of retrochic: the typical '70s family was not the Brady Bunch. It might have been closer to the Hoods and the Carvers, neighboring clans in New Canaan, Conn., who make up one big unhappy family in The Ice Storm. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is having a fruitless tryst with Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver), while Ben's wife Elena (Joan Allen) screams silently, so as not to wake the kids, and Janey's husband Jim (Jamey Sheridan) has so little impact on his brood that when he calls out a cheery, "I'm back," his son Mikey (Elijah...
...women blindly pick them out, and new sexual partnerships are formed--a surer route to public embarrassment than to private ecstasy. The omens are clear: the founderings of all these nice people will lead to trouble. A child must be sacrificed; men must sob at their loss. The Ice Storm, says Ang Lee, director of this daring epic in miniature, is "a disaster movie. Except the disaster hits home...
There is even a Shakespearean theme to the commemorative album of photos from the set of The Ice Storm in Kline's Manhattan East Side apartment. The album was a gift from Sigourney Weaver, who plays his mistress in the film. It seems that Kline was rehearsing a benefit Shakespeare performance during shooting and spent every spare moment reciting speeches to the cast and crew. Weaver got director Ang Lee, co-stars Joan Allen, Christina Ricci and others to pose while yawning, sleeping or looking otherwise bored during Kline's endless classical recitations. "I always wait till the yawns...