Word: enliven
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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HOME ALONE. First you have to get past the preposterous premise and spurious sentiment. Then you can enjoy the comic spectacle of an eight-year-old (Macaulay Culkin) fighting off a pair of inept burglars (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) with the kind of sadistic inventiveness that used to enliven old Bugs Bunny cartoons. The final 20 minutes revive the almost lost art of fall-down- funny physical comedy...
...Civil War, Ken Burns' beautifully crafted series, got virtually unanimous raves from the critics before it was telecast. Even so, few expected that an audience of great size would sit still for the 12-hour, five-night history lesson -- a lesson, moreover, with almost no film footage to enliven it, no Hollywood gimmicks to romanticize it and no network publicity machine to hype...
...Hair of the Dogma keeps the play from sinking into tedium. The ancillary characters certainly enliven it: the professor rants about the nature of atomic particles and the propensity for human beings to turn into bicycles, and the Irish lad spins yarns of the miraculous healing powers of his brother...
...says a good newspaper column has to be dull? Not this provocative punster and old Nixonian whose contrarian views and nose for news enliven the New York Times...
Prince, a government concentrator, said that his work was partially inspired by Picasso's cubist painting, "Three Musicians," and that his main goal was to create a sculpture that would "enliven the courtyard...