Word: tenderizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just twenty-nine seconds into the game, with the referee's arm in the air waiting to signal a Harvard penalty, Cornell forward Jamie Papp broke free from the crowd of players at the right side boards and stuffed the puck through the legs of Harvard goal-tender J.R. Prestifilippo...
Shot after shot, play after play, minute after minute, the Crimson played as if its season was already over. Intensity was nonexistent on both the Harvard bench and the ice as St. Lawrence dominated each and every shift, pelting Crimson goal-tender J.R. Prestifilippo (29 saves) with 16 shots by period...
...greatest achievements, presaging the slow movements of Mozart violin concertos and Beethoven piano concertos. Standing there, gazing at each other, Josefowicz and Laredo looked like intense conversation partners who just happened to be holding violins: Sensitive to the largo's lullaby cadences, Laredo nudged the ensemble to produce a tender, if totally subdued, accompaniment...
...eyebrows are raised, then, when a single gal named Linda (Natalie Canerday) takes Karl in as company for said Frank (Lucas Black), her son. If this were a Hollywood movie, Karl would be hit by a beam of light, Babyface would croon a Tender Ballad, and Karl's newfound ability to learn Sanskrit in an hour would have Linda begging for more...
...there's a volatile, tender symbiosis in the tandem of Flynt (Woody Harrelson) and his bisexual stripper drug-addict wife Althea (Courtney Love). They goad, torture and love each other, to the limit. Casting the Lady Cobain was not merely an art-imitates-death stunt; she's a real actress, rangy and sympathetic, with an instinct for just the right dose of excess. Love and Harrelson make The People vs. Larry Flynt a case well worth studying. --By Richard Corliss...