Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good advice. Yes, amid the screams and the shouting of the worst accident in Amtrak history--last week's crash of the Boston-bound "Colonial"--people were actually elbowing one another to get to their luggage...
MINUTES LATER, IT happened. There was a sudden jolt and the shrill screech of breaking wheels amid screams and falling luggage. One encountered what can only be described as a violent roller coaster ride with intense vibration and heavy rumbling as metal grated on gravel...
Time to pension off that oldie, at least where the visual arts are concerned. The '80s have been growth years for new museums across America, and nowhere more so than in Los Angeles. The end of 1986 saw a variety of art institutions either up or growing amid the sprawl of freeways. The most newsy, which opened early in December to a white glare of publicity faintly shaded with apprehension, is the Museum of Contemporary Art, known by its acronym MOCA. It was closely preceded by the $35 million Robert O. Anderson building, a new wing intended...
...bibulous humor depends on a generous tolerance for drunk jokes, but these times do not find inebriation quite as amusing as formerly. Further, Director Schenk's maladroit adaptation of the libretto is not particularly funny, although his appearance as Frosch, the tipsy jailer, has a couple of comic moments amid the prevailing tedium. But Die Fledermaus should soar and sparkle, not merely be endured...
...made the crucial choice to release the Australian film as a full-scale commercial effort in 871 theaters, rather than as an art-house sideline. Paramount also shrewdly capitalized on the sunny charm of Hogan, sending him on a twelve-city tour to generate human interest in the film amid a television and print advertising blitz. The studio's $5 million p.r. investment has been returned manyfold. Says Paramount's Tanen: "We worked this poor man unmercifully. But Americans took a liking...