Word: witnessed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CINEMA: Adult movies with wit, love and a little...
...Wit, conflict, a little sex. Good stuff for a movie? Good enough for a pair of terrific movies: When Harry Met Sally . . . , written by Nora Ephron and directed by Rob Reiner; and sex, lies, and videotape, written and directed by Steven Soderbergh. Their characters are quick and engaging; they could be the thirtysomething folks on a good day, in a gilded mirror. As Ephron says, "People who live in cities aren't in car chases. We don't get shot at. What we mainly do is talk on the phone and have dinner." Her film and sex, lies serve...
Scenes is a game too, cunningly constructed, sleekly appointed, exuberantly performed by a cast that picks up where bad taste leaves off. This one is not for the kids. Even adults will need moral shock absorbers; Scenes spits out its wit like a Heathers for grownups. Its pleasures may seem arid or acid to anyone who couldn't enjoy, say, a Restoration comedy as it might be played on Dynasty. But in a season when most movies are remakes of most other movies, Scenes is an original. And if you are in the right black mood, you could laugh till...
...more bonhomie than when he came in, more capacity for wit," Riesman says...
...Sandra, like most of Weldon's women, manages to wrest victory out of surrender. For one thing, she tells the story of her flight from boring respectability to middle-aged hedonism with bawdy, invigorating wit; silence may be her best defense in the presence of her new lover, but she is irrepressibly outspoken when she sets pen to paper. "Look, I'm really something, me," she tells herself. "And also I am nothing," she continues, in a characteristic about-face. "I am the debris of the world, product of a series of unconsidered and unnatural matings, between the proud...