It's a premise full of archetypes and in-jokes: the washed-up former hero (Mr. Whitford as a schnapps-swilling, '80s-fashion-wearing rule breaker) and his reluctant younger partner (Mr. Hanks as a tech-savvy, full-of-himself know-it-all) solving crimes that invariably involve car chases, explosions and outraged superiors.
It's a potentially interesting dramatic premise full of moral conundrums, but Cotton makes very little of it, aside from giving himself the opportunity to make speeches so long that I began to wonder if he was trying to break some kind of record.
It's a premise full of mythic potential not just for readers but also for the silver screen -- motion picture rights, the advance publicity materials announce, have already been sold to Sony.
The satiric (read: racist as hell the whole premise itself full of callous mockery) movie follows a young Rufus as he's elected president and proceeds to sing and dance in the White House.
The house had been mold-sprayproofed but it was exactly as she and he had left it....his eye-glasses on the desk along with the mail from that very day, with many cats running around the premises, the bookcase full of their valuable volumes.
Considering the premise — a plane full of pageant contestants crashes on a small tropical island — and the cover image of a bikini-clad girl's midriff draped with a bandoleer of lipstick cases instead of cartridges, it could seem like another excuse to pit girls against one another, a log on the mean-girl fire.
"In Government hospitals they don't keep the premises neat and tidy, full of dirt only, if someone gets discharged they don't bother to change the bed covers or cleaning and maintenance are not to be seen".
(New mother, Bagalkot ) "In Government hospitals they don't keep the premises neat and tidy, full of dirt only, if someone gets discharged they don't bother to change the bed covers or cleaning and maintenance are not to be seen".
Its premise, after all, is full of juicy potential.
But elsewhere she slides into the premise as into a tub full of suds, communing with Townes van Zandt's "Flyin' Shoes" and Jimmy Webb's "P.
