Word: dated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When controversy has landed at Jewett's feet, his style has been to compromise. Comments by Jewett himself in 1989 helped to force the versy issue of date rape onto his agenda. having helped to create the controversy though, Jewett managed it so slowly and deliberately that by the time the Ad Broad issues a report on the topic, many had forgotten the original issue...
...1/2-hour tapestry weaves four tales into a meditation about tough guys with too much or too little time on their hands. What do you talk about before a killing? (Fast food in Amsterdam.) How do you escape a fate worse than death? (With luck and honor.) How do you date your gang boss's wife? (Very carefully.) How do you remove those telltale blood stains from the backseat? (Very quickly.) Spinning delirious variations on familiar film noir conventions and pulling career-best performances from < Travolta, Willis, Thurman and especially Jackson as a Bible-spouting sociopath, Tarantino makes a smart, fatal...
...three days after his release from a military prison. The killer, who had been locked up for abusing her, said he shot her five times in the back because she ruined his Army career. She had made plans to move secretly to a new home before his official release date, but the military neglected to tell her that he was getting out two months early because of accumulated military leave. "It was a nightmare," one Army official involved in the case says. "Nobody told...
...quasi-compendious retrospective of scientific and artistic thought since 1904. In Martin's debut as a playwright, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Albert Einstein (played by Thomas Derrah) shows up at the famous Montmartre bohemian artists' hang-out the Lapin Agile. While working out theorems and waiting for his date to show up, Einstein meets Picasso (Bill Camp) who stumbles in hoping to be noticed and admired. At first distant and confrontational, the two great minds turn their sparring into harmonizing when they discover similarities in art and science, and turn to predicting their impact on the modern world...
...loudly and victoriously that science has nothing to do with gender issues. Fair enough, but the study of it certainly does, and it was towards this theme that the exchange had progressed, not Einstein's contortion; it is not without reason that there has been no female Einstein to date. Also perplexing is the exploration of Picasso's despicable character at surprising depth as if it were more important than his art, while Einstein's ideas, as opposed to his person, are given full stage...