Word: trunkful
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...script strays into strange territory like a befuddled traveler. Scenes such as the aforementioned kidnapping--Loretta's loopy/jealous stapler-salesman boyfriend Dave (Tom Barnett) throws Michael into his car's trunk--are so top-heavy with look-at-me absurdness that they nearly capsize the whole effort. Yet Yates is able to keep the proceedings afloat partly through a consistent aesthetic awash in kitschy tones...
...dreadful devolution over the decades, from the Gershwin and Kern winners of the 1930s to ?It?s Hard Out Here for a Pimp? this year. But, hell, the competition comprised of a woozy liturgical ballad from Crash and an uptempo number from the bottom of the Dolly Parton song trunk. And the winners, three exponents of Memphis hiphop, expressed more astonished delight than anyone except the Crash crowd. One of them even thanked the Oscar show?s executive producer, Gil Cates. That guy?ll be invited back, even if his dude duds obliterated the dress code...
Back on campus, Remele will continue to seek publicity and customers for his designs, which are currently sold through trunk shows and at an upscale boutique in Minneapolis. This coming fall, he hopes to extend to more stores in various cities...
...MUCH JUNK IN THE TRUNK In an Irish study of 50 patients, two-thirds were so overweight that standard needles could not reach the muscle tissue in their rears through...
...takes place in Wichita, Kan., specifically either in or in front of strip clubs or suburban houses. The lack of visual diversity of the scenes makes the 88-minute movie feel as if it will never end. The most artistically developed sequence involves Charlie and Vic dragging a trunk, which is filled with an overweight hit man, across a dilapidated bridge in the dead of night. The scene is oddly picturesque: a large gray hill in the foreground is overwhelmed by a crystal blue sky, with the actors visible by their shadowed outlines. With an unoriginal plot, dull setting...