Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this gentle fable, a twelve-year-old gets gonads overnight, and Tom Hanks proves himself the prince of '80s romantic comedy...
...pleasure to find a movie star, like Tom Cruise, who radiates old- fashioned star quality. Onscreen Cruise looks life-size or a little less; his body is not so much beefy as blocky; when he laughs, his prominent nose turns into a knuckle. Yet if Cruise disdains perfection for a roguish humanity, his million-watt smile makes him immediately likable, even swoonworthy. In Risky Business, Top Gun and The Color of Money, he effused an unselfconscious self- confidence, an anachronistic but winning spirit of American go-get. In an ideal suburbia, Cruise is the boy next door, most likely...
Trouble is, he knows this, and so do the people who help him make movies. His new one, Cocktail, has no reason for being other than to market the Cruise charm like a cheap celebrity perfume. Act I: See Tom strut as a Manhattan bartender for whom mixing drinks becomes a form of performance art, a quick route to saloon celebrity. Act II: See Tom slink, as he dumps a young woman of sweet substance (Elisabeth Shue) for life on a leash held by a rich bitch (Lisa Banes). Act III: See Tom furrow his boyish brow in a moment...
Last week 1,600 researchers and artificial-intelligence enthusiasts from around the world gathered in San Diego for the second international conference on neural networks. For five days, they studied the recent advances in this form of artificial intelligence and pondered its bright future. Before long, Tom Schwartz, an industry consultant in Mountain View, Calif., told the crowd, "these machines will be recognized as the steam engines of the 21st century...
...Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush...