Word: uncorks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baldwin, a fine actor in emotionally reserved roles, cannot summon enough of Stanley's musky sexual appeal or his apish brutality. His voice is too light, his features are too aristocratic. Above all, he cannot uncork the character's volcanic ego. The violent fits and howls are all there, yet feel calculated. Lange gives Blanche an initial strength that makes her breakdown all the more overpowering, and provides the few moments of real magic, describing the breakup of her family home and her hopeless marriage to a closeted homosexual. These scenes, however, are with Amy Madigan, able if stolid...
...uncork the champagne yet. Experts believe much of these gains came from one-time factors. Handsome profits from the decline in interest rates last year allowed institutions to pay depositors rates as low as 3% while charging borrowers more than double that level. Now that rates are creeping up again, that windfall may be ending...
...risky to tell for fear of bringing harm to the remaining Western hostages may now be told. True, the final installments must still await the freeing of two German captives. But Anderson's release last week seemed to unburden other American ex-hostages of their "survivor's guilt" and uncork fresh memories of physical pain and mental anguish. If a single thread ran through the recollections, it was the abject despair each man experienced when confined in solitary, and the mutual appreciation, gratitude and respect each felt for his fellow hostages when they were penned together. As for their...