Word: tended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tend to think that lobbying is more effective than protesting, so that will be our major thrust," Simons said...
...along, the real action was taking place on a remote Georgia island. Cumberland is 18 miles long and accessible only by boat, unless you are brave enough to land a small plane on the grassy little airstrip, where horses tend to graze. The National Park Service owns a huge tract of land; a few very wealthy families and a handful of longtime residents own the rest. There is no telephone service; none of the roads are paved; and only the Park Service and full-time residents are allowed to have cars...
...Hollywood was also attentive, as The First Wives Club is, to a brutal supposition in popular psychology: men tend to homicide, women to suicide. In the traditional view, this is the only heroic violence suitable for a lady--to die with dignity. In the 1932 Three on a Match, society wife Ann Dvorak leaves her loving husband for a small-time gambler, neglects her child and, realizing the error of her ways, kills herself. Best friend Joan Blondell marries the husband, and Bette Davis moves in as nanny. The 1937 Stage Door has an array of dazzlers (including Hepburn...
...approaches I'm Losing You somewhat cautiously, since serious Hollywood novels tend to hit the same keys--decadence, emptiness, bad faith. There's an essential hypocrisy to these sorts of books. While they self-importantly lay bare the meaninglessness of celebrity worship, they simultaneously exploit that very failing--an insatiable desire to read about the movie business. For I'm Losing You, Wagner has indeed rounded up the usual suspects: nihilistic agents, pornographers, washed-up producers, depraved plastic surgeons. And they are indeed doing the usual things: having soulless sex, taking drugs, using each other. Nevertheless, Wagner has written...
Problems start to arise, however, with the boisterousness of the kid personas: they tend to take center stage. Sullivan plays Anna's two kid personas to great comic effect: now an outrageous Chevalierian accent, now a tiny, tiny child's voice. One scene involving a single peanut butter and jelly sandwich reaches epic proportions, and one fears for the moment that Sullivan will explode onstage. Her Anna seems understandable impatient at times to return to the other personas: they're more...