Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around the counter, the displays of cheap trinkets, and the neon-like wall displays and jukebox, never become too confining as Altman uses perpetually changing positions for the characters. His use of reflections through mirrors and dust-covered windows and different camera angles provides the movie with a vast array of approaches to the dime store scene. The pinkish tint to the filming adds an eerie dimension of stagnation, as it makes the characters look even more cheap and tacky...
Underneath the jollity, however, most legislators were deeply troubled, and with good reason. Rarely has a new Congress, and the President from whom it seeks guidance, faced such a menacing array of dangers: gargantuan deficits, ominous unemployment, a threat of Social Security bankruptcy, growing pressures for trade protectionism, uncontrolled illegal immigration. The consequence is a logjam of issues that must be confronted. Neither the White House nor Congress could allow itself the luxury of bickering and indecision much longer...
Fighting to attract customers to these new accounts, S and Ls and banks are offering a bewildering array of double-digit interest rates, bonuses and prizes. The competition may threaten the survival of hundreds of small institutions that cannot afford to match the come-ons of their rivals. Says Robert Lackovic, executive vice president president of the San Francisco-based 1st Nationwide Savings: "It's going to be a real dogfight. The one thing regulation did was to produce a system in which the consumer knew he could walk in anywhere and get the same product. That...
...this season playing first once, and then twice weekly for the San Diego Clippers, who won only 17 of 82 National Basketball Association games last year and welcomed even part-time help. The rest of the time, Walton traveled north to study law at Stanford, inspired by the spectral array of lawsuits surrounding him. They include former San Diego Owner Irv Levin's claim that Walton and his doctors should have warned Levin of the congenital foot problem in 1979. Only in spirit was Walton the freest free agent, leader of the champion Portland Trail Blazers...
Superficiality pervades the entire movie--especially because the array of relatives constitute a full spectrum of lifeless duds. Set in the early '60s, these characters are static period pieces; they seem lost in dated material, as if their horn-rimmed glasses had fogged their view of reality...