Word: thumpings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eccentric excess. This is supposed to be charming, but it is merely tiresome. Portman pouts prettily at Adele's all too predictable capers--naturally she forgets to pay the utility bills, misreads her daughter's dreams and that handsome orthodontist's intentions. But you can feel these beats coming--thump, thump--a mile off, and Wang's inert direction does nothing to enliven their inevitable arrival...
...Russell somehow extracts the full expressive potential from each bullet. Instead of numbing battle scenes with fifteen million ricocheting bullets, he slows down the path of each shot fired. Instead of "Bang! Bang!" we hear "bang. whoosh. thump. slosh" as the bullet travels through air and into the body of its victim, where Russell, with hyper-colored special effects, intrepidly follows...
...real show-stealer was the Kennedys (Pete Kennedy and his wife Maura Boudreau), who had the final performance on the Showcase Stage. So Pete had bad hair--still, when he lifted up his old guitar to thump, tweak and coax out crowd-rousing guitar solos that flew from Spanish-style romances to jazzy Broadway show tunes, you forgot all about it. The captivating backgrounds of their songs were impressive as well: they wove classics like Faure's "Pavane" and Bach's Jesu, "Joy of Man's Desiring" into songs inspired by remote sources such as Greek myth...
...should it have mattered that Neal Furrow had a familiarity with guns in a region where hunting is a pastime, if not a rite of passage. His parents live next door to Olympic Arms, a mom-and-pop manufacturer of gun parts, in the rural Nisqually Valley. Indeed, the thump-thump of artillery is a part of the audible landscape, thanks to a howitzer-firing range at nearby Fort Lewis...
...body explodes in a red mist. Around them, a few dozen spectators in baggy T shirts and oversize shoes watch in a trance as grown men with joysticks stalk one another through underground mazes, firing guns and blowing one another to bits. When chunks of bloody body parts thump to the ground, some of the onlookers laugh out loud. "This is gonna sell like hot cakes," chortles...