Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most sequels to action-adventure films fall flat on their bloodstained faces, but Diehard 2 is a welcome exception to that trend. This sequel doesn't just cash in on the success of the original movie, or just pull all the same stunts. Diehard 2 remains as fresh as the original, and that's pretty high praise...
...exhibition of the art of Islam in Munich and by a visit to the Moorish monuments of Andalusia. As a result, he recalled, "I felt the passion for color develop in me." This was dramatically confirmed by Morocco, where Matisse's aesthetic of decoration took full hold. Flat pattern, inlaid motifs, sharp conjunctions of highly decorative forms -- as in the wonderful Basket of Oranges, 1912, with the sharp forms of citrus fruit and their leaves competing against the more diffuse pattern of the flowered silk drape on which they rest -- these were the signs of a world crammed with pictorial...
...health clinic, and the Rev. Robert has retired from his parish in order to devote himself to "staring at the walls of my houseboat." After all, he figures, "to ponder is to wonder at a deep level." Besides, out of all that woolgathering, book No. 3, Meatloaf in B Flat Major, will emerge next year. Even now, thoughts are surfacing like salmon in Lake Washington. "The grass," he notices, "is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where...
...ending falls completely flat when Arnold returns to his old standby job as indestructible Terminator. He bends steel bars; he rips people's arms off; he shoots really big guns; yeah, yeah, yeah, we've seen it all before...
...difficult one for Beatty--a millionare who reportedly has slept with many of Hollywood's most famous women. He must have really had to act play the role of the modest hero. The sheer difficulty of Beatty's trying to fill those shoes probably explains why he fell so flat trying...