Word: strays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the runners fight through forty-thousand yards, most of the spectators do not stray more than ten yards from their car. There is a crowd at each parking lot along the way, at gas stations, barrooms, train stations. Even when there is a much better vantage point a short walk down the street, most families set up camp right next to the four-door. This is partly because people bring with them so much stuff to watch the race. They have the lawn chairs, the Coleman cooler, the barbeque grill, the portable television, the radio, and most troublesome...
Altman may be a genius, but linear analytical rigor is not his thing. He lives and works amid a genial hurly-burly, with room for all kinds of stray inspirations and serendipitous touches to worm their way into his movies. What Altman pursues is not looseness for its own sake, but surprise -- both for himself and for moviegoers: he didn't know beforehand the tics and shadings performers like Lyle Lovett and Whoopi Goldberg (who play police officers) would bring to their characters, for instance, and the movie-within-a-movie surprise he gives the audience near...
...most perplexing stepdaughter is Lucy, who marries a patient, loving man. Although the couple move to Long Island and have three children, Lucy's thoughts never stray far from Momma. Each week she returns to her stepmother's Brooklyn apartment, where she complains that her husband "is not the man I married." No hint of the husband's failing is offered, but one suspects he sins only in offering Lucy no tragedy around which to shape her life...
...live shows have the trappings of rock without rock's edge of danger or (as in the case of Bruce Springsteen) its all-out emotional engagement. He's a country performer not only for country folk who want a kick, but for city slickers who don't want to stray too far from the superficial trappings of rock. He's new and familiar at the same time. And at the right time...
...hairstyles of the 19th century, and spicing up his narrative with his own juicily vernacular translations of Catalan poetry, Hughes lights up even the structure of Catalan fishing nets with indelibly vivid descriptions ("gauzy forecourts and inner rooms hanging in the sea, into which whole schools of tuna would stray and be compressed to a frenzy of foam and chunky thrashing bodies...