Word: whole
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suppose it is the "look" of the store that is the whole point. I have no problem with stores that cater to a certain image. In today's individualized world no one can appeal to everyone. But I do have a problem when I feel that this "look" becomes a statement. I do have a problem when I sense that this statement is exclusive...
...Team to like this side of the old Dallas Cowboys with their griping that they didn't even get out of bed for $5,000, so why should they play golf for the U.S. for that paltry stipend? Team captain Ben Crenshaw was very publicly not amused, and the whole controversy threatened to wreck a team so clearly superior to its European opponents that member Payne Stewert told Golf Digest "On paper, they shouldn't (even) be caddying...
...discrepancies between Tom and Nicole's dream (I call the characters by the star's names since I don't see the difference) and the fleetingness of reality. The film is supposed to come together when they say, "The reality of one night is not the whole truth. And no dream is entirely a dream." Instead, the movie ends with a thud--a curse word, no less--that proves how desperate Kubrick was to shock. But even a shock would have been welcome. Instead, we got a tame lesson in perversion from supposedly the most astute director of our time...
...look[ing] closer." It should, by all accounts, be remarkably subtle. For a time as I watched (from somewhat farther away), I agreed -- snowed by the film's acting prowess, its wit and its elegance. American Beauty seems to be full of big, revolutionary ideas: that beauty is a whole other world behind images, that we create the rules we live by, that we have caged ourselves and can set ourselves free. But, at heart, these ideas are too obvious and too broad to make the film truly extraordinary, or truly necessary. Do we really need to be told that...
...PATRIOTS - Giants game looks like the squeaker of the weekend, and a little bloodshed is always good for the spirit. The Giants are once again whole, with Jason Sehorn's return almost wrapped up. If New England can keep the home fires burning and rile up the crowd, they should be able to sneak past New York, winning...