Word: smoldering
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...invites us to watch as a betraying beau comes chugging toward them. Waiting to Exhale doesn't have the idiot vigor to become a camp classic like the movie Valley of the Dolls. Forest Whitaker, a laid-back actor who directs this slow-fuse movie, lets his divas strut, smolder and tell off the skunks they once loved. This ain't art--it's more like tasty junk food. And Bassett provides the special sauce...
...quintet of thieves lusting for the big score, The Usual Suspects convenes five scarred souls, including a chatty gimp (Spacey) and an anguished antihero (Byrne). In California on a quick job, they run up against a vicious, unseen ganglord named Keyser Soze-a name that has the smolder of Satan in it. One by one, the thieves...
When it was all over, the defense counsel spoke. Sad-eyed, indignation banked to a mere smolder, Robert Shapiro argued that all the accusations laid against his client were the worst kind of circumstantial evidence -- evidence that could be read as innocence as well as guilt, and the court should have "little difficulty in deciding that this certainly is not a case of any premeditated murder by anyone." In fact, he declared, there was insufficient proof that O.J. Simpson was guilty of anything...
...game two that fire continued to smolder as Harvard again collapsed Cornell 7-2. Melissa Krueder drove in two runs with a double in the third; Christina Vogt followed in the fifth with a two-run triple...
...Mather? Mather doesn't burn. Even the rugs are smolder proof," said one Mather resident who sleeps through the ear- splitting sirens...