Word: thin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Within a tiny three-inch by three-inch cube of space, a bright red corkscrew spiral appeared out of thin air and began to rotate in three dimensions...
Passing by the MAC, I accidentally drop my box of flyers. Instantaneously, two men, about 30 or 40 years old spring to my side, apparently from thin air. Grinning at each other like mischievous boys, they help me gather the windswept papers. One warns me, "You be careful there," and I thank them with all the dignity I can muster in a skirt that seems to be creeping higher up my thigh every minute...
What saved the day was the discovery that news from America in the South Pacific is thin and well aged. The first time a New Zealander brought up "the scandal involving that young woman," I felt safe in saying, "If you're talking about Tonya Harding, I think she brought a lot of it on herself...
...intelligence and triteness, and between politically correct and glaring offensive. But it never finds its "zone." The movie seems unnecessarily forced and cautious. "Laugh at this!" it tells you. "Cry now!" it yells. In between these climactic urges for audience emotion, The Object of My Affection stomps all over thin ice. Though mindfully tries for fluffy appeal, it ends up cracking under the weight of its cautiousness...
...relentlessly, riding roughshod over dozens of helpless front desk PR agents whom he harasses in his 90-minute film. Structured around the seedy corporate book tour and Moore's Downsize This!, interspersed with discontinuous side trips to local, downsizing Fortune 500 companies, The Big One wears Moore's economics thin. He asks the same questions over and over. Moore bullies unsuspecting PR men and security guards, apparently forgetting how similar these representatives are to the laid-off workers Moore unquestioningly hugs throughout the movie. When talking to workers, Moore is a Sunday school teacher; when talking to corporate representatives...