Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raining. In a fine version of the somewhat beefy Ellroy crime novel ostensibly about a strange murder, director Curtis Hanson portrays the cool, brutal world of Hollywood glam and corrupt police in '50s Los Angeles with all its gradations of questionable ethics. Guy Pearce and Russel Crow turn in fine performances that give us two different approaches to policing, thinking first and hitting later, or vice versa. A reptilian James Cromwell and slick Kevin Spacey round out a fine cast and a finer tale. Could this be an Oscar contender? I'm not a betting man. --Nicolas R. Rapold...
...motion as the insistent, piercing violin relentlessly piled the tension higher. Huge silences punctuated the cadenza; Lin masterfully made the gaping gaps of sound as arresting and palpable as his pure high melodies or mellifluous low phrases. He dared the orchestra to return after the end of his virtuosic turn with cleanly executed runs of eighth notes, and the first movement ended shortly thereafter...
Managers in many University departments will miss "having someplace to turn for help and support," Williams said...
...Certainly identity politics as we know it deserves to go away in a hurry, but a Minow-style concern for group rights is a subject that ought to stick around. The New Republic ran a piece this summer about the Latino-Jewish alliance. Needless to say, there did not turn out to be all that much of an alliance, just a coincidence of voting preferences. However, what came through is that the United States is going to be majority non-white sooner than later, and that it is going to be a mess of different groups with different languages, histories...
...team is an amazing group of individuals," said Harper. "We'll bounce back. We can turn this into a good thing by making sure it is something that never happens again...