Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That the latter, in the case of Bound, is between lesbians--a gangster's moll named Violet (Jennifer Tilly) and Corky the handywoman fixing up the apartment next door (Gina Gershon)--has caused a certain amount of prerelease stir. But their relationship is more verbal than physical (with their sexual encounters very discreetly managed), and the fun of this movie--written and directed by the brothers Wachowski, Larry and Andy--lies elsewhere...
...nattering nabobs kept their ears open and reported Agnew's verbal misdemeanors of political incorrectness. On a campaign plane, Agnew saw a Japanese-American reporter dozing, and asked someone amiably, "What's the matter with the fat Jap?" Consternation ensued among the ethnically sensitive. Indignation again flared up after Agnew memorably declared, "To some extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all." That thought made it into Bartlett...
...been "devising" films, as he puts it, for 25 years, since the aptly titled Bleak Moments. Unable to secure studio financing, he made films for the BBC and Channel 4, where he carved out his own dramatic genre: working-class Brits scraping each other's skin with their verbal aggressions. Since the late '80s he has worked on the big screen. Some of his films (High Hopes, Life Is Sweet, Naked) have earned him critics' awards and a small, passionate U.S. following. He has received museum retrospectives and is the subject of Michael Coveney's comprehensive, reverent biography The World...
...carried out. Issues of truth, knowledge, accuracy and relativism get very complicated and, well, postmodern. All of which is stimulating, analytically speaking, but it can get dizzying as theater. Thankfully, there is enough good, old-fashioned sexual intrigue in both plots to keep the audience interested, even when the verbal dueling gets ridiculously complex. The script is also full of vicious one-liners. When the nubile and conniving Chloe is rejected by her would-be prey, another character remarks: "I wouldn't worry about Chloe. She's old enough to float on her back...
...with his earlier speech bashing Hollywood, Dole got a lift when he resigned from the Senate in June and then again in August from a smoothly run G.O.P. convention. His selection of the energetically gifted Jack Kemp, whom Dole had reviled for years, was widely praised. But Dole's verbal and tactical missteps took their toll, confirming the electorate's fast-hardening negative verdict: Clinton was far from the heroic ideal, but Dole simply wasn't up to the job. Facing the hostility of many women voters, Dole tried modifying his antiabortion stance. He called for a "declaration of tolerance...