Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alhough the artistic merit of some of the films far outshines the grime on screen, such justification wears thin for others. In the face of the fifteenth wanton murder or fourth example of very, very free love, we just might think the filmmaker has lost his way in making his statement...
Equally controversial, but for its violence, "Natural Born Killers" perhaps best demonstrates the thin line that filmmakers tread in trying to "send a message." Although director Oliver Stone obviously seeks to lay bare the media-crazy, hyped-up, and knocked-down society we live in, we begin to question his methods when his satire goes too far. With alarmingly fast-paced cuts, murders flicker by in the blink of an eye, only to disturb, perhaps deeply, just moments later. The cry of "That's the point!" can only go so far in defending movies that, in truth, are pounding...
...great day for it," said Ficara, pulling a small red handkerchief out of thin...
...According to an internal Pentagon document obtained by TIME, the U.N. peacekeepers are "not equipped to enforce a cease-fire." Nor does the Pentagon believe NATO air power will be effective for this purpose. NATO planes could stop a large scale assault on Sarajevo but would be stretched too thin to police minor infractions everywhere. So according to the Pentagon document, the only way for the armistice to last is through "self policing" by the warring parties...
DIED. MARGARET GORMAN CAHILL, 90, the first Miss America; in Washington. Seventy-four years before TV viewers pondered the pros and cons of the Miss America swimsuit competition, back when the pageant was little else but a swimsuit competition, a flapper-thin form won the title for the 5-ft. 1-in., 16-year-old (or 15-year-old, according to some rumors) Cahill...