Word: cool
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Internal Affairs The year's best urban action film -- cool, smart and heartless -- is also a moral tale about the infinitely corruptive power of sexual attraction. Richard Gere's performance as a good cop gone rancid is a marvel of slipperiness...
...titillating the Corleones seemed in 1972 and '74, when Francis Ford Coppola turned Puzo's best seller into two Oscar-winning Godfather films. Here was a family of murderers viewed with cool compassion; they did their lurid business with style. Coppola's own style, which set the tone for '70s movies, was called operatic -- meaning that the characters moved slowly, died grandly and emoted at the top of their lungs. The book was a fast, brutal read; the movie saga was an extended, ravishing look...
...beginning I created the heavens and the earth -- well, almost. I actually started with a lump of molten rock, gave it a hundred million years or so to cool off and then began to form the clear blue oceans and the landmasses that would eventually become continents. After a few billion years had gone by (it seemed like minutes to me), I created the first life-forms and triggered the start of their long evolution. Before I knew it, my world was filled with thousands of self-replicating molecules, millions of one-celled organisms, whole armies of invertebrates, crustaceans...
...this point that Havana starts to go awry. It is not Redford's fault. The years have weathered him handsomely, and he contrives to lose his famous cool with insinuating subtlety. The problem lies with Olin, who never loses enough of her cool, and with Pollack and the writers. Whatever else is going on in their lives, Jack and Bobby need to come to a world-well-lost moment, a rocking, rolling acknowledgment of suppressed desires. That does not happen. We get shadows and tenderness instead. Then the script sends her up- country to join the rebels and sends Jake...
...actual count -- well, actual approximate count -- the Australian rock band INXS has played 2,000 performances during the past 13 years. And what have its members got to show for it? Folks still have trouble with the name. "In excess" would be phonetically correct, but it lacks the cool mystery of those four uppercase letters, which make the lads loom large, like something mythic: six electrified Druids with some new rhythmic spells to weave...