Word: hauntedness
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In a less ambitious context this combination of inventive slackness and intellectual slipperiness would not much matter. We could simply relax and enjoy a rattling good yarn--Braveheart without the kilts, Viva Zapata! without the sombreros--by a director who is shot for shot and scene for scene a masterly...
Exceedingly important as well is Miller's lack of mere nostalgia about his past sexual experiences. While he recalls them with great fervor, he never dampens the sexual energy of the piece with regret. Miller conveys in every joke, in every movement of his body, that he enjoys sex just...
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, which affects 1% to 3% of Americans, was until recently considered a chronic, untreatable condition. Victims more ordinary than Lady Macbeth and Howard Hughes are haunted by persistent, intrusive thoughts or worries (obsessions), and may spend countless hours performing repetitive rituals (compulsions) such as hand washing, counting...
On screen lately, in Heat and City Hall, Pacino has grown more manic and mannerist. The finger snapping, the zany intensity of his stare and the sudden, ferocious barks are weirdly suggestive of the older, crabby, haunted Jerry Lewis. As Pacino soars into camp, one wonders: Is he a failed...
The Olympics this year were a study in perseverance, from the thousands who breathed new life into a haunted party to the athletes who stayed focused amid bomb threats in a city that had waited forever to show off the New South (a phrase coined in 1886). As the Centennial...