Word: thundering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Proponents argued that few creatures would swim close enough to be deafened by the speakers, which will be anchored 3,000 ft. deep. Moreover, supporters said, the noise would be no louder than other sounds filling the sea, from the thunder of cracking polar ice to the roar of supertankers...
Gerald Arpino, co-founder and artistic director of The Joffrey Ballet, conceived and directed this ferocious full-length rock ballet. Prince gave permission for the company to use the highly respected troupe perform for the first time. Actively involved in the collaboration, Prince composed a specially extended version of "Thunder" of The Joffrey...
...lights go red and "Thunder," choreographedby Charles Moulton, begins with the entrance ofdancers outrageously painted and costumed with amedieval flair. An interesting but terribly oddpiece, it features Elizabeth Parkinson leading agroup of pelvic-thrusting dancers scrambling andflinging each other around the stage. Althoughthis segment is more mine than dance, "Thunder" isat its best during the highly choreographedinstances when the uninhibited dancers execute afast-paced and dramatic range of movements. One ofthe best pieces follows Prince's well-known"Purple Rain." Valerie Madina performs a solo in aclown costume with her face painted afrighteningly glowing white. Every facialexpression of hers deepens...
...recurring Cruise character (earnest, cocky young man who gets the girl), Cruise said he feels that all of the characters he has played are very different; he stressed the extra preparation he has given to creating them. He learned how to drive a race car for "Days of Thunder," (his first film with his wife, Nicole Kidman), learned to flip bottles for his role as a cheeky bartender in "Cocktail," was coached on his Irish brogue for "Far and Away," (his second film with Kidman) and studied trial law (not at Harvard) for "A Few Good...
Finney's fable has passed the time test (40 years is forever in pop culture), having been filmed twice as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Don Siegel in 1956 and Philip Kaufman in 1978. The first movie, punctuating California's small-town sunniness with the thunder of deadpan mobocracy, became a cult classic. Both pictures met the horror-movie challenge: they kept moviegoers up all night, ashiver with apprehension...