Word: searchlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is a connection, though, between the panoramic prettiness of Show Boat and the searchlight grittiness of Smokey Joe's Cafe. Whether or not they realized it, Leiber and Stoller were accomplishing in the '50s what Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein did in the '20s: translating the black music of church halls and barrooms into sophisticated songs that were at once true to the original spirit and acceptable to a mainstream audience. For L&S, that acceptability was a fluky byproduct of their urge to write rhythm and blues for the "race music" market. They didn't need to dilute...
...exciting," recalls Harrelson, a bit of a real-life brawler whose father is in prison for murder. "Oliver played an incessant barrage of wild music to get you going. The crew would jam the music, then fire shotguns into the air." All the actors felt this electricity, like a searchlight or a cattle prod. "Oliver shot at a feverish pace," Sizemore says, "54 days and no standing around. It was managed chaos...
...never lost them. At 38, Winger is no longer Hollywood's prime smart cutie. But this dangerous woman is still a beautiful one, with the searchlight intelligence radiating from her blue eyes and the seeming spontaneity, even surprise, at the corners of her famous smile. And her pretty gifts have matured. She mixes the old guts and softness more daringly now, and the lock she has on her characters is stronger than The Club...
...which Koresh holds forth on scriptural prophecy and heavenly signs, kept up their psychological warfare. After dark, high-intensity spotlights were directed into the compound, which has been without electricity since federal agents cut the power on March 12. At times a helicopter circled overhead, playing a mobile searchlight into windows...
When the tiny, very pretty freshman from Providence College took the stand, Tyson finally had to cede his searchlight-spotlight to a co-star. At that moment the sense of the procedure finally shifted from a test of a celebrity's mettle, or the dilemma of Tyson the legend vs. Tyson the man, to a familiarly tragic story of men's dangerous urges and women's rightful fears...