Word: woo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...versions of action painting. Their connections with traditional narrative and their concern for realistic representations of the natural world and the way human beings might plausibly behave in that world virtually vanished. Watching a Die Hard or Lethal Weapon sequel or anything by the Hong Kong action specialist John Woo, you entered a two-dimensional world in which what you mostly thought about was, as it were, the surface of the canvas--the tension and originality with which the director slapped, slathered or slashed his colors on it. Like their painterly progenitors, many of these filmmakers are craftsmen...
...doesn't just see it as a stepping-stone." The audience cared too. "It wasn't really awesome," said a young woman who waited outside for six hours in brutal heat to get into the show. "But it was more like, now I can say I saw him." Woo...
...BORN. To Woo star JADA PINKETT, 26, and action hero WILL SMITH, 29: a boy, Jaden Christopher Syre; in Los Angeles...
While Harvard is clearly not prepared simply to halve or eliminate tuition, it seems reasonable that it can significantly improve financial aid packages without considerable financial consequences. It has been reported that Harvard's extra hours in the financial aid office this spring allowed them to woo graduating high school seniors with individual deals. Why not simply be open and fair and help all students with a more generous financial aid plan, generating both gratitude (a good quality in alumni) and good publicity...
BLADE (Aug. 28). Wesley Snipes--buff body and best menacing display of teeth since the early Kirk Douglas--saves the world from some hyperactive vampires. Action in the gaudy John Woo mode; can it find viewers beyond teenage boys...