Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delightful in their unpredictability. The process is best represented in the paintings of Jeff Daniels' inarticulate soda-shoppe proprietor, whose self-expression increases in richness and assurance as his palate of colors expands. But just as you think you know where the story's going, it takes a darker turn and the allegory deepens, as the conservative forces of Pleasantville, led by the town mayor (the late J.T. Walsh, in his last role), attempt to check the changes as they would an infectious disease. Not surprisingly, it falls to David to resolve what his sister started, and in so doing...
...Harvard community is infected by final clubs. In turn, the clubs do their part to poison our nation. That contribution may well be small, but it is still a harmful one. We all want to have fun, but fun unfortunately has a price. The final club dynamic is unacceptable, yet it has become a social norm. If we do nothing, if members never speak out against their policies and we still flock to their doors, the clubs will continue to feed an increasingly unvirtuous society...
...identified as the thing that kept him grounded and out of trouble. His descriptions almost deify computers and give them higher powers. Only when he lost interest in computers as a 12-year-old because he was in "a rush to get older," did his life take a crooked turn for the worse. An innocent cigarette addiction picked up while playing "Space Invaders" in his local arcade turns into a dangerous real-life video game where "points were gained by taking chances that others wouldn't. Doing drugs gained points; stealing gained points; blowing things up gained points; going further...
...main event. He had obviously established a rapport with the music and was excited about performance. There were flourishes in his music and motions. At the end of a phrase he would sweep his arms up as if to gesture to the orchestra and say, "Now it's your turn." The piano concerto is one of those pieces that is supposed to put all the listeners in awe of the pianist. It is fun to hear, and maybe even more fun to watch it performed. Perhaps Norris was a little too virtuosic in the concerto: while the notes were technically...
...scenes of romantic comedy and social satire are short-lived, ending abruptly when the movie takes a turn for the serious. Though the humor in the first part of The Alarmist is a little off-kilter, one hopes that it will be honed by the movie's conclusion. But that possibility is obliterated by the new murder mystery plot that takes over in the second half. Whatever credibility the script had up to that point is undermined by the oddity of the shift, making the movie a Quentin Tarantino imitation gone awry; the macabre violence and odd moralistic overtones undercut...