Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Constance Chatterley in love -- the quintessence of romantic adventure in which two people meet, lock eyes, feel an instant thrill of attraction and soon fall into passionate sex. Lady C.'s erotic enthusiasm caused D.H. Lawrence's novel to be banned as obscene not so long ago; the book was finally cleared in the U.S. in 1959. By then it could take its place on shelves crowded with explicit fiction that celebrated the new ideal of sexual behavior it had helped to inspire. Freedom, spontaneity, pleasure without guilt became the bywords of the liberated '60s and '70s, as many...
Ronald Bass's clever script never apologizes for Catharine, never explains her. It knows, as Alex does, that "nobody knows why anybody does anything." And Rafelson, in his snazziest stint since Five Easy Pieces (1970), locates meaning in each thrill and frill. He gives Supporting Players Nicol Williamson and James Hong juicy vignettes. He gives Winger a role that taps her smarts, humor and goofy-gorgeous smile. And he gives Russell the movie. In the past she has mainly graced the films of her husband Nicolas Roeg. Here she emerges as a golden girl with looks that kill. Separately, Russell...
...contest gets about as much attention as the pee-wees who sometimes play before the Bruins game. For those little kids to be on the Garden ice is a thrill of a lifetime for the consolation kids, it's just nightmare. For the fans, it's a distraction...
...visitor to touch its spats. Nearby sits the Chrysler Airflow -- not, alas, the classic 1934 model with the "waterfall" radiator, but still modernity on wheels, squinty windshield, fairings and all. Between them are such icons as the 1936 Sears-Roebuck Waterwitch outboard, offering its owner some whiff of the thrill associated with Henry Dreyfuss's bullet-nosed locomotives or Norman Bel Geddes' flying wings. Your trousers shorten as you look...
...starts dating back to 1983. In 40 openings over three injury-prone years, he and the Bears are 36-4, and Ditka is as galled as several of the players. The thought of Mad McMahon riding to the season's rescue on his black chopper does not thrill anyone, especially the coach. "I don't believe you're really that hurt," Ditka told McMahon straight out before the diagnosis. "He's been Sybil-izing a lot lately," McMahon yawned, a coded reference to a multiple personality. "Why would I not want to throw a football? I have...