Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when director Stanley Kubrick died at home on March 7, The New York Times felt it necessary to report that there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death. Kubrick always had a reputation as something of a misanthrope, a connoisseur of violence and off-kilter ideas. It's no wonder people translated the Kubrick that they saw on the screen to the Kubrick who lived a quiet life as an expatriate in London. Alas, the real Kubrick died a death less bizarre or shocking than that of many of his characters. But his movies, as mundane as his death...
...plans. "It's all B.C. And it's like the sketchiest place ever." It appears that Boston's "Who's On First" has earned itself quite a reputation--Pauly relays stories of half-naked men and women on the dance floor. I am slightly alarmed and also beginning to wonder why exactly FM picked me to check out this fine establishment. Perhaps they expect me to rip off my clothes...
...plans. "It's all B.C. And it's like the sketchiest place ever." It appears that Boston's "Who's On First" has earned itself quite a reputation--Pauly relays stories of half-naked men and women on the dance floor. I am slightly alarmed and also beginning to wonder why exactly FM picked me to check out this fine establishment. Perhaps they expect me to rip off my clothes...
...Iran is known for denouncing the Great Satan U.S., swearing out fatwas on any renegade soul and defining women's rights as the privilege of wearing a chador. For two decades, Iran has been, notoriously, fascism with a cleric's face. So it is a conundrum and a wonder that the republic has allowed the production of highly sophisticated films that are both touching, in the style of Italian postwar neorealism, and at least implicitly critical of aspects of the ruling theocracy. How do Iran's auteurs pull off this double feat? Frequently, by cloaking grownup stories in toddler raiment...
...YORKERS Study shows they're more likely to have heart attacks. No wonder they're so uptight