Word: tug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THERE IT WAS, A CHANCE ENcounter and perfect sound bite. Robert Tercek, then an MTV Asia promotions executive, was in Bombay taping a commercial when he felt a tug at his sleeve. Standing there was an Indian youth who insisted that he had to tell the world "what MTV has done for me." Cameras rolling, Tercek let Sanjay, 19, have his say. "Before MTV, I was like this," he began, his hands to his face like blinders. "Now it's like this," he said, stretching his arms...
...have big plans. I am going to start from his very first memory and move through his 66 years with the fastidiousness of a Philadelphia trial lawyer. Early influences. Formative moments. Biggest secrets. Greatest experiences. I will tease and tug until they are all mine, and they will all fit together in one perfectly neat history. All the while, I will remain wholly detached and, above all else, completely in control. No concessions. No regrets...
Even early on, friends sensed in him an ability to move people that owed less to intellect than to the tug of sincerity. His sermons in those days were highly colorful and factually creative, to a point that would haunt him in later years. Heaven, he used to explain, measured 1,600 sq. mi.: "We are going to sit around the fireplace and have parties, and the angels will wait on us, and we'll drive down the golden streets in a yellow Cadillac convertible." Decades later, the vision has matured. "I think heaven is going to be a place...
...take FM and Crimson aside and say, "Now look. Do we have to separate you two?" It's not as if we borrow Crimson's clothes or anything. But someone has to be the pest, so we use their writers, their photographers, their cartoonists. We tug on beat reporters' sleeves and ask them to write Scrutinies. We hog the design computer's scanner. We'd tattle on The Crimson, if it was ever naughty. We even tag along when Crimson goes out with its friends, and spy on Crimson when it brings dates home. (Just kidding. Crimson never has dates...
Weir's earlier change-your-life movies includethe more successful "Green Card" and "Dead PoetsSociety." In "Fearless," though, the barage ofcinematic gimickry and Hollywood manufacturedemotion can't quite hide an insubstantial plot."Fearless" manages to tug at the heartstrings--for a while