Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember this feeling of dread all the time," she says. "He really expected--he made unreasonable personal demands...
...were tough, this is easy,/And it feels so good to say,/ Forgetting you is not that hard to do,/I've done it a thousand times a day." Loveless performs the number at dirge tempo--if it were any slower it would be going backward--dramatizing all the dread resolve and the lingering uncertainty in saying no to a bad habit. Denial is easy; refusal is hard. And the song is great...
...that Rodgers and Hammerstein anthem, an inadvertent camp classic, fits the nostalgic mood of City Hall. The film harks back a decade or two to the days when New York pols with great names--Meade Esposito, Stanley Steingut--swaggered toward a dread destiny. The bad guys in City Hall are in that mold: princes of darkness, Borgias of Brooklyn. The movie's obvious forebear is The Godfather, which apotheosized the dirty dealings of statesmen and Mafiosi in the richly upholstered, 10-watt throne room of Hades...
...REAL HOT ZONE In a grisly coincidence, last spring's plague movie Outbreak, about an Ebola-like virus hitting a California town, was echoed by a real-life outbreak of the dread virus in Zaire. Dormant for 16 years, the disease swept through the Central African country, causing gruesome hemorrhagic fevers and killing at least 244 people (many of them health-care workers) before going underground again. At year's end, Ebola resurfaced in western Africa, this time in the Ivory Coast and possibly Liberia...
...beat a seemingly indomitable but actually flabby and pariah-surrounded Mike Tyson one glorious night in Japan five years ago. Buster then was bitten by the overconfidence bug that bit Tyson, and was knocked silly by Evander Holyfield. (Buster has since ballooned to a 400-pound man with dread locks. "I always hated fighting," he says...