Word: subtlest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some of the subtlest humor anywhere: news anchor Kent Brockman announces that 38 million American are obese and adds "Put together, this excess blubber would be enough to fill up the Grand Canyon two fifths of the way up. This might not sound very impressive, but keep in mind this is a very large canyon...
...knows that in the delicate triangular relationship linking China, Taiwan and the U.S., the subtlest of words and actions can spark a conflagration. When he persuaded Washington to let him visit his alma mater, Cornell, four years ago, the first-of-a-kind trip by a Taiwanese leader since the U.S. dropped diplomatic recognition of Taiwan in 1979, the incident seemed trivial. But China literally went ballistic. In the midst of Lee's campaign for re-election, the People's Republic, which regards Taiwan as a "renegade province," staged ominous military exercises in the narrow waterway separating the island from...
...professorial abstractions and his huge but fragile ego (a perfect role for William Hurt, that most self-regarding of actors), and her daughter Ellen, forced to give up an all consuming career to nurse her mother (Renee Zellweger, in a wonderfully clenched performance). This reconciliation Streep encourages in the subtlest of ways. There's no apology for Kate's lifetime of good cheer and common sense, just an opening up of those modest qualities, so that her family and we are gently, unsentimentally embraced and enlightened by their grace and bravery...
...Deserves It: Macy's a dark horse if Fargo goes far; whatever the outcome, his shifty, stuttering car salesman was the subtlest, the saddest, and the funniest of this bunch...
...also get a sense of the multiple agents responsible for creating a movie, the ways in which even the subtlest contributions of directors, writers and actors shape the final product. The directors, writers and actors who speak here feel responsible in varying degrees for the implications of their films. Farley Granger describes the actors' awareness of the homosexual themes in "Rope," while Shirley Maclaine wonders at the production of "The Children's Hour," a film wholly concerned with lesbianism, during which the words and ideas of homosexuality were never even mentioned...