Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What have you been doing, Beth?" "Well, isn't that cute!" I can't wait to see you try to turn that into a job/future/life. I didn't think I would have a problem feeling superior to the people in my old entryway. Why should anything change after three years...
...scene and use his zoom for close-ups. Tracking shots are handheld, often on the run. Sequences end when the cameraman decides to shut off -- or when he runs out of film. We see MoPic only fleetingly, when, for laughs or in a final desperate moment, his comrades turn his camera...
...Filipino guerrillas massacred a company of American soldiers, slicing open the corpses and filling them with molasses and jam to attract ants. In retaliation, one U.S. general ordered his men to turn the island of Samar into "a howling wilderness." Samar has never recovered. Forty-one years later, Filipinos were risking savage Japanese reprisals to feed American prisoners of war marching in the notorious Bataan Death March. At war's end, Filipinos hailed the Yanks with a band playing God Bless America...
Even better is Brun's turn as Dr. Chausable; he employs an entirely different British accent to capture perfectly the character's well-meaning but provincial sobriety as well as his underlying lecherousness. And as society matron Aunt Augusta, Emma Laskin drawls each word with a terrifically contemptuous sneer; she may be the only actor on stage who can not only read a Wilde epigram but can squeeze a laugh out of it as well...
Despite his current success at Miami, Fernandez made a gutsy decision to turn down a guaranteed professional contract. He was the first first-round draft choice since 1979 to turn down the major leagues...