Word: toning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performances are first rate, especially Liotta's, whose menacing grin and volatile temper make strong-willed Audrey's fear of him credible. But the final third of the film deviates too sharply from its initial tone, resulting in an ending one might expect from a Spielberg film--conventional and uninspired. Something Wild has all of the ingredients of an offbeat, interesting movie, but, unfortunately, the chef seems to have lost the recipe...
Rusty Ball, Harvard's number two, whalloped Chris Smith in three straight sets, setting the tone for numerous shut-outs by the over-powering racquetmen...
...parable of a grad student's revenge. The student's plagiarizing professor is beheaded (but not exactly killed), and the woman they both lust for can be revived from death only by becoming a zombie. From Beyond eschews such metaphysical satire for some fine gore effects and a hypersonic tone that raises horror to farce. No masterpiece here, just a bloody good entertainment. It's criticproof...
...every sad event there is a countervailing and arresting image: of swallows on a Spanish mountaintop ("Their flight on the sky was like fine scratches on film"); of a vista in Boise, Idaho ("My aunt's couch faced the door, which stood open, the view given a sepia tone by the rusted screen"). The author offers glimpses of strange lives and then, with wisdom and art, makes them clear and permanent...
Freshman Mary Cist, one of five frosh who competed for Harvard, opened up the masscare with a 3-1 thrashing of Suzie Moore, 15-8, 12-15, 15-6, 15-10, which set the tone for the rest...