Word: strung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grady's signal beacon had been traced. The pilots saw bright yellow smoke coming from trees near a rocky pasture; O'Grady had set off a flare. The first Super Stallion, commanded by Major William Tarbutton, touched down, trying to avoid crude pine fence posts with barbed wire strung between them. Some 20 Marines scrambled out to set up a security perimeter...
...matched pair, Lynsky as Pauline and Winslet as Juliet are well-differentiated and developed. Juliet comes from the upper class, and Pauline from the very lower-middle, as their respective accents demonstrate. In temperament, Lynsky is a perfectly sullen Pauline, flat-faced and brooding, while Winslet makes a high-strung Juliet, blonde and impulsive. Pauline's ubiquitous heavy awkwardness is less demanding than Juliet's rapid-fire swings from copious tears to maniacal happiness, but both Lynsky and Winslet manage to make their characters more than caricatures of polar emotion...
Unfortunately, the other three performances do not match the caliber of these two and serve to weigh down and drag out the play. Ryan McCarthy's portrayal of Mark, the strung-out schizoid 'Nam vet, is so one-note that the revelation that he participated in a fragging incident, which should have been the climax of McCarthy's portrayal, gets lost in all the raving. Danielle Sherrod, as Carla, a flamboyant would-be sex goddess, is engaging and humorous at first. But her portrayal, too, is so intense as to lack dynamic, and her story, though flecked with comic moments...
There are plenty of subsidiary characters worth their own movie, like the suburban drug dealer (Eric Stoltz) and his trippy wife (Rosanna Arquette) -- a married couple for the strung-out '90s. Part of Pulp Fiction's fun is that memorable weirdos keep popping up in the second and third hour. Part of the movie's skill is that familiar characters reveal new depths. By the end, Jackson's Jules -- in a "transitional period" from L.A.'s baddest malefactor to Tarantino's idea of masculine sanctity -- has commandeered the film. But even Jackson, brilliant in the role, knows that all good...
...strategy that has proven very effective. Thompson leads the Ivy League in rushing (117 yards per game) and has strung together consecutive 100-yard rushing efforts. A workhorse back, last week Hu proved that his hip injury was fleeting: the sophomore exploded for 154 yards and two touchdowns...