Word: toms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really not all that exciting--at least, that's what my friends tell me. But I can't seem to get enough. Perhaps it's some perverse personal flaw, but I think I've become some kind of digital peeping tom...
...Eagles (8-22-2, 4-20-2) will need a lot of energy and enthusiasm to compete for postseason action this year. And Boston College is hoping that most of that enthusiasm will come from first-year Coach Tom Babson...
...Fans toss their bras onstage at you. And you wear leather pants a lot. Are you the lesbian Tom Jones...
Even when nothing is doing, something is doing, for Frank's driver partners are all loony in different ways. John Goodman's false reasonableness, Ving Rhames' born-again religiosity, Tom Sizemore's addiction to violence--nothing about any of them can help Frank. The film is full of casual dark humor, but what's best about it is its resistance to the conventional three-act movie structure. Its string of incident is relentless, virtually undifferentiated, like life, and contains no promise of uplifting resolution. Bringing Out the Dead is like its title--blunt, truthful, uncompromising. It is hard...
...announcing his supposedly humble intentions. There are some echoes here--of Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, even Harper Lee--and Haruf's gentle novel gives off a familiar backwoods, cold-mountain whiff. This time we're in Colorado cattle country, with Ike and Bobby Guthrie, ages nine and 10; their father Tom; two bachelor farmers, Harold and Raymond McPheron; and Victoria Roubideaux, a pregnant teenager with nowhere to go. Once the McPherons agree to care for Victoria, Haruf has roped in his plot as if it were the most cooperative of heifers. The cliches are plentiful, but this is a lovely read...