Word: types
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Casting against type, of course, can lead to a miscast movie. But Cruise jumped at the dare. "I demand a lot of myself," he says. "I want to learn. I can't sit back. I like a challenge, so I create a lot of challenges for myself." For the actor, many of his films provide the perk of being able to test himself, master a new skill. He flew in Navy jets before making Top Gun. He played serious pool for eight weeks before The Color of Money. For Cocktail he tended bar in Manhattan. He plays a race...
What the situation calls for is a new type of disaster, a "three dimensional invention unheard of before." Unless Wheeler can find "something unearthly" to include as a disaster in the film he is supposedly making, he'll surely rot--in wonderful shades of green, yellow and red--into nothingness right before our eyes...
Staub is more effective as the gangster-type, right-hand man than as the boxer whom Lanx later becomes. Lanx burns with the desire to control people, but Staub gives the stereotypical shady character amusing mannerisms which reveal his true weaknesses...
...current system of house assignment breeds intolerance, fear and sometimes even loathing. A Crimson poll of undergraduates last year indicated that few students believed they could live comfortably at any of the 12 houses. By allowing students to choose the type of living environment they want, the current maximum first choice system makes everybody suffer...
...Since they directed academic centers they had huge publicity," Mateu-Llort continues. "They advocated a negotiated solution to the crisis. That gave them a lot of publicity, the type of publicity only politicians...