Word: absently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unique flavor of People's celebrity profiles; the parody doesn't look at the amusing laundry list--current success, difficult childhood, early hard-times, current sexual partners--that makes People's cover stories so wonderfully predictable. Bad taste, usually of the sexist variety and a Lampoon trademark, seems pleasantly absent--all the more remarkable because of an apparently all-male production staff. But perhaps I (also all-male) merely missed the offensive parts...
Owing to a variety of ailments, the Colbert character zips about the place in a motorized wheelchair. She also slogs down brandy, smokes cigars, plants electronic bugs and starts wastebasket fires in absent-minded moments...
Once, every affair had its clergy; political conventions still find a Jew and a Baptist and an Episcopalian and a Catholic to deliver the invocations on successive nights. But no men of the cloth take part in Jerry's affair, and indeed God seems curiously absent for all the talk of hope and faith and finding cures. So maybe that's the secret; these people, these scientists and entertainers and aluminum recyclers and french-fry-buyers and little shriveled kids with iron braces on their feet, maybe they can all solve their own problems, or at least make themselves feel...
Lumet decided to focus almost entirely on Ciello, ignoring most of the other questions this complicated film raises. New York City, for example, is almost entirely absent. Lumet shoots almost all scenes inside, presumably to show the profound isolation of Ciello's--or anyone else's--behavior. Lumet may have thought he already made his New York Movie in Dog Day Afternoon, with its wonderful characterization of the city's good-natured malevolence, or in Serpico, with its Good Guys vs. Bad Guys simplicity. One can only hope, by the way, that Lumet concentrated on interiors because he wanted...
...Leighton, a Washington lawyer who represents PATCO officials, is urging all fired controllers to pursue the appeals process to the end, making a number of arguments at every step. First, he says, they should challenge the seven-day notice as inadequate. Next, they should argue that they were ill, absent without leave, taking a sudden vacation or otherwise not actually on strike. Finally, Leighton suggests that fired controllers contend that they are not receiving equal protection under the law; if the FAA initially allowed strikers to return within 48 hours without being fired, he reasons, why cannot all strikers...