Word: witnessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have much in common. Both grew up in Czechoslovakia, and both left. Navratilova, who defected in 1975, is a naturalized U.S. citizen; Lendl, who renounced his former homeland more subtly, soon will be. Both struggled to master English, and both now speak it fluently, with a dry, self- belittling wit. Both love all manner of sports: Lendl is a fiend for golf and hockey, while Navratilova is enchanted with skiing, basketball and, as a spectator, American football. Both rose to the top through raw physical power, and both have seen the game evolve so much, in terms of their opponents...
...Detective Luis Bautista, Frost searches for the real culprit. Their investigation leads to the boardrooms of his old firm, power lunches at Manhattan's toniest club, and the swimming pools of Rio. Haughton Murphy (the pseudonym of James Duffy, a retired Manhattan lawyer) writes with inside information and civilized wit. The fifth adventure of Mr. and Mrs. Frost makes them the most enjoyable pair of married sleuths since Mr. and Mrs. North...
...also not insignificantly about boots. There are many elegant close-ups of them as their bad-dude owners go menacingly about their wicked ways. These are the only shots that have any passion invested in them. The rest of the film is all awkward maneuver, without wit or feeling. Screenwriters John Fasano, Jeb Stuart and Larry Gross labor to arrange a plausible reason to reunite Murphy's smooth crook, Reggie Hammond, with rough cop Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) and place them in the kind of violent situations and give them the kind of rude comic exchanges that made the original...
...cartoons that Jules Feiffer syndicates to more than 100 newspapers around the globe are world crises in miniature -- angst-ridden responses by ordinary people to headline horrors and social absurdities. His plays have the same etched wit, the same arresting blend of compassion and chilly analysis and, alas for dramaturgy, the same tendency toward monologue: one of his central if unspoken themes is that people almost never speak to each other as insightfully as they speak to themselves...
...better than Batman. Warren Beatty, Hollywood's most distinctive producer- star, scores after a long dry spell with a gangland drama of wit and grace, narrative sweep and unique visual style. All this and Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman (strutting their roguish stuff while devil-dolled up in grotesque makeup) and a knockout Madonna too. It may not be a great movie -- after all, it's only comic-book art -- but it's great moviemaking...