Word: witnesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cabot always sought to create more value than he found, and he always found more value than most of us have the wit to perceive," he said...
...this rule. Sadly, however, the third one is not. Granted, "Batman Forever" looks fresh, with a new director, new set design and a new actor -- Val Kilmer -- portraying the Caped Crusader. ButTIME critic Richard Corlisssays director Joel Schumacher forgot to give the movie life -- "the energizing spirit of wit and passion that makes scenes work and characters breathe." Despite dueling star turns from villains Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones, "Batman Forever" is little more than a series of set pieces with no forward momentum...
...think of him as, let's see, Ishmael. No. Fred Ishmael? Nah. But any other way lies madness, a dizzy spiraling down lunacy's drain. To wit: not far into the novel, while the real Powers is setting up the furniture of a marvelous story, the fictional Powers (who like the real one has written several respectfully received novels, including Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance and The Gold Bug Variations), announces that he is finished with novel writing, nauseated to the very soul with the idea of creating another scene or character...
...fondness for TNT, the viewer simply suspends belief and coolly appraises the things that go boom. Say, wasn't that a nicely staged Wall Street explosion? My, that runaway subway train crashed onto the platform with a certain vigorous verismo. Oh, look-more actors playing dead people! So little wit is expended on the dialogue and so much on the imagination of disaster that you may as well sit back and enjoy the jolting ride...
...actual purpose of sitcoms, therefore, is not entertainment. True, little entertainment outside of absurd humor comes without the cost of a little mockery or deprecation. But a sitcom doesn't supply much wit or coincidence, just a constant stream of feeble pointing and ridiculing built on some imaginary person's futility...