Word: raring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is little self-conscious artiness on display. The exhibits mainly exemplify rare, happy confluences of art and commerce, from Deborah Sussman's chair advertisement for the Herman Miller company to Times Square's unplanned riot of electric signs. Graphic design is a populist art, this show declares. It derives its energy and value not from precious drawing-board perfection but from getting out and mixing it up in the rialto...
...thing Alex teaches Michael is that life, unlike computers, is a nonbinary system, offering more than two possibilities for, say, getting a stalled career moving or dumping out of a too carefully programmed engagement to a dull girl. Spader, an awfully good actor, accomplishes the rare trick of making the good weak guy seem more interesting than the strong bad guy. In fairness to Lowe, however, he is not given much to do but lurk in the shadows and look menacing as he stakes his claim on a bedazzled soul. Alas, Bad Influence never persuasively explains why cautious Michael would...
Satanism? Exorcism? Was O'Connor seriously suggesting that demons were loose in the land? To be sure, the Cardinal did say in his sermon that demonic possession is "very rare," and that exorcisms are not conducted unless psychological or medical possibilities are first ruled out as explanations for extreme behavior. Still, the fact that they are performed at all seemed remarkable in an age when literal belief in demons is widely viewed by Roman Catholic theologians as a naive medieval holdover. (Among Protestants, exorcism is confined mostly to missionaries in areas where spirit-possession cults are common, and to Pentecostalists...
...Chairmen Harvey Weinstein, 37, and his brother Bob, 35, have proved them wrong. Three of the ten films they released last year -- My Left Foot, Cinema Paradiso and sex, lies, and videotape -- are up for a total of seven Academy Awards this month. The Weinsteins have also earned something rare among independents: big profits...
...furor over Clark's decision, at least he has been honest. Clark has never beat around the bush about his feelings on public interest law, even if these sentiments did infuriate the student body. It was this rare honesty with the press that elicited the attacks for his apparently anti-public interest comments. Two weeks ago, he subjected himself to an hour of antagonistic questioning by students at a forum...