Word: aright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novelty. Instead, it's the running commentary given by two critics, John Claflin and Jamie McInnes. The two chat with one another about their own personal problems as well as the play, and eventually, when dramatic issues come to a head, enter the play itself to set things aright...
...middle of the park, in the middle of the day." Instead of hearing poetry in the public parks, "we often hear harangues in those areas that should be the arenas for the noblest expression." "Poetry in the Park" is one attempt by the Sidewalk poets to set this trend aright...
...film is stocked with sprightly gags-from the opening credit sequence, with its Rube Goldberg series of mishaps, to the evil Superman getting a wicked charge out of setting the leaning tower of Pisa aright. Director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night, Petulia) paces the jokes to his trademarked sprung rhythm and sees that they are deftly executed by his engaging cast. Vaughn may lack the top-dog malevolence needed for an archvillain, but he communicates the fun he had playing the role. O'Toole, whose cheerleader beauty has too often been camouflaged...
...each. Under the Skeksis' whimsically sadistic reign, virtually every member of the industrious elfin race of Gelflings has been slaughtered. Only two remain-Jen, a young male, and the girl Kira-to replace the crystal's missing shard and set the world aright again...
...pressures on Turner must be considerable. Like his father, he has expanded his business, taken on debt and risked all on having judged the market aright. Unlike his father, he refuses to retrench. Much of his personal property is pledged as collateral for loans, and nearly all of his worth is tied up in 87% of the Turner Broadcasting System's stock...