Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even that which we enjoy of his world, he doesn't know to temper. Having Jackson's gun runner sit Robert DeNiro's aging felon on a couch and show a video of gals with guns--that's a master touch. But lingering on the boring homebody life of a criminal is a little too much, even if DeNiro's the criminal: I'm not all for the experiential method of getting an audience to feel the consummate boredom of a character by subjecting them to the same...
...happier occasions. In fact, he's succeeded in making John Grisham--the king of popcorn thrillers--lethally boring. There is no shameless entertainment here, no chance to be swept up in instant thrills. Instead, we see Harvard dropout Matt Damon lost in two hours of disjointed storytelling without a touch of drama. --Soman S. Chainani...
...lead, thousands of children across the nation will cry themselves to sleep in a fever of disillusionment. Thus, when Abby (Olivia Williams), the Postman's obligatory love interest, gushes, "You give out hope like it was candy in your pocket," you find yourself wondering first, "Would I touch something that's been in Kevin Costner's pocket?" and then, "Did she say hope? When did he give out hope? Did I miss the hope part when I was in the bathroom...
...show needed a guitar solo, and noodled for a couple of minutes. The crowd was variously amused and disgusted; some were upset that they'd been tricked into watching Def Leppard-style musical onanism. The pounding techno soon resumed, though, with an almost unrecognizably jungly reinterpretation of "Everytime You Touch...
...convincing 6-3 win not only saw the resurgence of a struggling power play and the emergence of a sophomore scoring touch, but it also ended a five-game winless streak...