Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Preston Sturges used to write and direct this stuff pretty well, with gusts of anarchic energy and a gaggle of pruny character actors to undercut the sentiment. Frank Capra was a master at building social comedy to the apex of hysteria, then pulling a happy-ending miracle out of his hat. Ron Howard, even after Splash and Cocoon, ain't these guys, yet. When he lets his film relax into hip facetiousness, and when Keaton parades his elfin jock swagger, Gung Ho is agreeable. But its relentless stereotyping of the Japanese provokes winces and worse. Its tone swings violently from...
Basinger, whose performance with Sam Shepard in his and Robert Altman's Fool for Love demonstrated that she should be above this stuff, is, thanks to Lyne's directing techniques, able to show the whole range of angst-ridden emotions from fear to guilt-ridden pleasure. But who could fashion a believable role from a script that requires her to suffer the ignominy of being trapped atop a ferris wheel at one moment and to prance down the boardwalk with Rourke as if nothing had happened at the next...
...certain ideas. Other ideas had already been cashiered or were the subject of caricature. I felt that I was starting out at such a deficit. I had to keep my mouth shut. To say, I am a man who feels aroused by looking at and reading some of this stuff was no argument. It was like saying, I am a lizard...
...Last year, I felt players were taking shots and doing a lot of stuff to me that I didn't feel they should do, and I retaliated because I felt that you've got to protect yourself," Blair says. "You've got to show the other team you're not afraid, and whatever they're gonna give, you're gonna give back...
...upsurge of the nice-guy sentimentality once typical of college life. Greeks again serenade a girl who has accepted a fraternity pin from a brother. Corsages, long dresses and black tie are back for dances. Initiation ceremonies, long scorned as juvenile (and now largely cleansed of the rough stuff), are once again emotional experiences, with pledges of fealty by candlelight. On some campuses, Hell Week has been renamed Inspiration Week. Senior Kyle Williamson of the University of Colorado's Sigma Phi Epsilon house, which prides itself a membership of jocks and other square-shouldered types, admits that...