Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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The devisers of these burly entertainments knew the Arnold character was both incredibly heroic and inherently comic; the films contain their own parodies. Moviegoers realized this too. Sure, even his forehead has intimidating muscles; but then he breaks into a big gap-toothed grin, and the put-off is revealed...
It was Khalifa who designed many of Kuwait's successful investment strategies, and Khalifa who reorganized Kuwait's oil industry following the government's 1975 takeover of the Kuwait Oil Co. -- a joint venture of Gulf Oil Corp. and British Petroleum. And now, to no one's surprise, it is...
Count on Awakenings, written by Steve Zaillian, to mop up at Oscar- $ nominations time. Any movie about mental disturbance (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rain Man) is likely to touch Academy members, not so much because it treats a serious issue as because it parades the performer's...
When foreign visitors come to American cities, their reaction is almost invariably astonishment, and sorrow, at what they see on the streets. America is a wealthy nation of conspicuous ideals, one that presumes to have something to teach infant democracies all around the world. By failing to act creatively, generously...
Bial finds the right blend of moralizing and merriment in the last one-act, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, by Dr. Seuss. Here the various citizen Whos take turns telling the tale, and both Bial and the cast skillfully intersperse the traditional storyline about the primacy of Christmas cheer with...