Word: timidation
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...inefficient even as the sort of action machine Hollywood can tool up in its sleep. The mandatory car chase is woefully generic; it disregards the laws of physics without raising more than vagrant musings in the viewer. Why, for example, would a cable-car-ful of passengers be too timid to apprehend the lone bad guy while he's busy wrestling with the hero...
...action machine Hollywood can tool up in its sleep," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "The mandatory car chase is woefully generic; it disregards the laws of physics without raising more than vagrant musings in the viewer. Why, for example, would a cable-car full of passengers be too timid to apprehend the lone bad guy while he's busy wrestling with the hero?" Murphy is Scott Roper, a San Francisco cop making up his own rules in edgy face-offs with the criminal class of the Bay Area. Roper is no Dirty Eddie; he's a negotiator...
...poseur in his own house, painting himself alternately as a self-sacrificing hero, a man of genius, and the loving patriarch of his household. This pose that might seem a trifle overdone without the perspective offered in the first act of a much-diminished Hjalmer in Werle's house: timid, awkward, and ill at ease, he's out of his element when not within his own walls. And when those walls come crashing down after Gregers' intrusion, we see Hjalmer's lordly complacency degenerate into frazzled nerves and shrill paranoia, all deftly portrayed by LeBow. Gregers himself is another such...
Clinton's Republicrat antics have been familiar to all Americans who have even an elementary knowledge of political affairs. If Clinton seems even more timid now, perhaps his current bout of spinelessness is due to the Republicans' electoral gains in the Senate and their continued control of the House of Representatives. Also, although I hate to encourage the sort of unfounded rumors and conjecture that have fueled scandals such as Whitewater, the White House Travel Office firings, the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit and even Vincent W. Foster's suicide, perhaps Clinton is trying not to tread on any toes...
...about "the alien landing at Roswell." Dark Skies posits that the government suppressed news of the Roswell aliens and that the space demons have taken over America by implanting infant aliens in people's brains--a scenario for people who think Oliver Stone's conspiracy theories are way too timid...