Word: taunting
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None of these films are Citizen Kane -- what is? -- but they come close to the spirit and intent of that eternally young masterpiece. They treat film technique as a living language; they taunt, dazzle, delight. Best of all, they seem ready to spawn a receptive audience. On a spring afternoon in Manhattan, hundreds of smart-setters crowd the lobbies of the Film Forum and the Angelika, downtown temples of alternative film. Poison and Paris Is Burning are sold out hours in advance. The atmosphere is festive, with the feeling that something good might happen inside. The movies, all movies, could...
...fear they have done something reprehensible -- or even something out of the ordinary. Two nurses at Pacifica Hospital, where King was taken after the beating, testified to a grand jury last week that the officers who assaulted King showed up later at the hospital room to taunt him. One allegedly told the victim, "We played a little hardball tonight, and you lost...
There is free time in the desert -- sometimes much too much of it. Desert Shield Radio, a network of four FM stations, plays news and music round the clock, a welcome replacement for Baghdad Betty, who used to taunt soldiers that their wives back home were being unfaithful. (One cuckolder was said to be Bart Simpson.) She has not been heard from since the bombing began. By and large, music tastes are fairly sedate. Since the fighting started, says program director Sergeant Major Bob Nelson, "it's like someone put a pillow on it; we got a lot of requests...
...Kennedy, as enraptured as everyone else by the applause that would not cease. But in the din came a tiny echo from more than two years ago at the Democratic Convention, when Kennedy fevered his audience with his litany of Bush's ditherings, following each charge with the taunt "Where was George...
...SLEEP WITH ANGER. A charming wastrel (Danny Glover) brings the dark past into the restless heart of a middle-class black family. Charles Burnett's drama is an acute and beautifully played evocation of the down-home ghosts that may haunt and taunt any urban family...