Word: groundedness
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In the days of "Size Does Matter" and "Bigger is Better" can a pure human drama still affect us? Leave it to Meryl Streep to squash all doubts about that. Her latest acting showcase, One True Thing, tells such an incredibly small story that it puts all the vast, sweeping...
Bacharach supports Costello with mostly excellent arrangements which may leave his fans with a sense of deja vu: the twin flugelhorns, the wispy strings, the fuzzy horns, the retro female background singers. Only when Bacharach stretches his orchestrations into more rock-oriented territory does the music suggest outtakes from the...
"Home is where the heart is," says Kate without the least bit of irony, "these are the people I love." Using a character grounded in the simplicities of life, One True Thing gives us something almost unparalleled in recent cinematic memory--the triumph of the ordinary.
I know how defensive I sound, and that brings me to my main point: Fetishism is a problem. A superficial preference for black males or Asian females or any other group grounded in stereotypes can and does offend deeply. Such a racial ranking of desirable (mostly sexual) partners represents ignorance...
As he approached the record and the pressure seemed unendurable, he started hitting home runs at a pace never before seen: seven in eight games. The weekend before the broken record, the McGwire alert was sounded: a press corps 600 strong went to St. Louis, McGwire's 10-year-old...