Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This weekend, when the ministers of the world's least loved cartel gather in Vienna, the session is apt to be the stormiest ever. The members are poorer than they once were; oil exports lifted the current account balance of the OPEC nations to a record $109 billion surplus in 1980, but this year there will be a deficit, estimated at more than $15 billion. The delegates must face the painful fact that they can no longer control both prices and production at high levels, a nettlesome problem because OPEC members have shown little inclination to live with production...
...pleasing people; Nestor Almendros' carefully burnished cinematography imparts to Manhattan's streets a theatrically menacing glow that subtly transforms and romanticizes their mean reality. Writer-Director Benton, working from a story he and his onetime partner David Newman concocted a decade ago, proves to be a generally apt and tasteful student of Hitch's mature surface manner. Why, then, is Still of the Night such an irritating and unsatisfying film...
...told Coach Steve Pike he'll return for a fourth season next year Fast finished off the season as the team's leading scorer and made second team All-East Sophomore Steve Heiszek sidelined throughout the season after knee surgery, finally saw playing time last night. Pike, usually apt to argue with referees, had only praise for last night's officiating Yale, which brought the bare minimum number of players, actually got half its scoring from a pair of late-season walkons...Back-up goalie Adam Button made a save for the Crimson in the final period...
...joke, it drew great guffaws. "The biggest moneymaker in Hollywood last year was Colombia," quipped Johnny Carson during the 1981 Oscar awards ceremony. "Not the studio-the country." There is considerable truth in the jest: though used throughout the U.S., cocaine remains an especially apt symbol for the affluent Southern California lifestyle. If John De Lorean's alleged shipment of 220 lbs. had indeed made its way into the Los Angeles marketplace, it would have found buyers...
...WHEN YOU SHOOT in elephant, he sometimes stays 10 days on his feet before topping over," a character declures near the begining of Fitzearruldo. With this hit of incident dealogue, the German director Wener Herzog has hit open a sadly apt metaphor forhis new film. Over a 21/2 hour stretch of celluloid, Fitzearruldo lurches and becomes like some Teatonic pachyderm. Drunk on its own significance it dies at our feet collasping under its own weight...