Word: tonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Timothy says that from the age of eight on, he would fix his father a gin-and-tonic after work, and talk with him over hors d'eouvres and carrots before dinner...
...invalid. "I want to be able to draw the line myself," he said on TV. Three days later, he was put to death by a doctor. "His last evening at home was so cozy," his wife said. "Frans gave himself another quarter of an hour: 'One last gin and tonic and a cigarette, then we'll get down to work...
...Highway had preceded Wild at Heart (or Eraserhead or Blue Velvet), it might give off a sense of otherworldly menace. But we've visited this planet before, become familiar with its obsessions and grotesqueries until they hold as little terror as garden gnomes. And while it's always a tonic in this timid film age to see directors try something different, Lost Highway is the same different. Someone should tell Lynch that noir is a genre, but weird...
Welcome to the sitcom from hell, redeemed into a lesson of togetherness. Marvin's Room, the 1991 Scott McPherson play, filmed by Jerry Zaks, is an old-fashioned weepie of noble mien with many bright moments and a superb cast. It's a tonic to see Keaton making sense of sanctity, DiCaprio refusing to sentimentalize a disturbed teenager. The impossible challenge goes to Streep; she's supposed to escort Lee on a forced march from belligerence into family harmony. "How can one sister be so good and the other so bad?" asks Aunt Ruth. The answer: careless writing. The movie...
Clinton may be President, but Wall Street won the election, in the form of a "status quo" rally that has even seasoned traders shaking their heads. The prospect of at least two more years of Democratic President Bill Clinton pitted against a Republican-controlled Congress is just the tonic investors seem to want. Since Nov. 1, when Clinton looked to be a lock, the Dow Jones industrial average has zipped past 6100,6200 and 6300, en route to a near 6% gain...