Word: wray
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sidewalk," said Tawney A. Wray. "Even though I've been approved for a Section 8 disabilities voucher, [the Cambridge Housing Authority] will not move me up on the list. I'm not eligible for emergency housing, but I need affordable housing because I'm on a fixed income...
...OVERHEARD:] "Did Hollywood treat you well?" (posed to Fay Wray); "How's the acting going?" (posed to a young stud...
...ethics, no respect for others and contempt for family values, what we have just witnessed may be only the beginning of horrors we cannot even imagine today. You want to know where the problem lies? For most of us, the answer is no farther than the nearest mirror. DAVID WRAY Littleton, Colo...
Cinematic homages abound in the new Godzilla. There are obvious ones to King Kong (with Broderick as the Fay Wray equivalent); then there is the constant damp a la Blade Runner and Alien; an extended attempt to outdo the Jurassic Park raptors; even a wink at the Coneheads ("Where'd you find that guy?" "He's from France"). Critical reaction at early screenings has been mixed. But for a surefire blockbuster like this, reviewers be damned! The film even taunts the critics with a brazen in-joke: the mayor of New York City is a hothead named Ebert, whose campaign...
...Toro's Mimic, works as both pulp and poetry. It gets scare shivers tickling the lay audience while connoisseurs nod sagely at the canonical resonance; think of the creature as Dracula spreading its capelike wings and Sorvino as both a Frankenstein whose experiment went bad and a Fay Wray to the insect world's King Kong. The roach and its sibs are Susan's mutant creations; they have the gift of mimicking other species. If Susan's commando crew doesn't Off the bugs quick, New York could become a slightly less fabulous place to live...