Word: arrowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emotions are easier to evoke than fear and pity. But comedy is hard. It takes Astaire timing and kamikaze cojones to stand on a stage or a sound stage and do this: wear a novelty-store arrow on your head; blow up balloons, twist them into animal shapes and announce the resulting sculpture as "venereal disease!"; tap-dance maniacally when seized with an attack of "Happy Feet"; then build a movie career running variations on a character you might call the suburban jerk. And mainly this: wait bravely for years until your public gets the comic point...
...Bork opposed civil rights legislation in the name of protecting the autonomy of state legislatures, he now opposes state gay rights legislation. Dworkin asks the appropriate question: does Bork's position in the latter cast doubt on his reasoning in the former. Could it be that Bork's guiding arrow is not a belief in the right of states to decide things for themselves, but rather his adherence to conservative prejudices...
Delta says the series of mistakes is an improbable coincidence that will not be repeated. Says Spokesman Jim Ewing: "We are a straight-arrow company. There is not one shred of evidence" linking the events. Still, Delta has begun its own investigation...
...that launched Dickey out of poetry circles and into the celebrity void. He was good, fast-drying copy. Big and burly as a stereotypical Southern sheriff (a role he played in the movie of Deliverance), he strummed a guitar, partied hard and shot at deer with a bow and arrow. His collection of poems, Buckdancer's Choice, won a 1966 National Book Award, but he was also a member of the warrior class, having flown Black Widow night fighters against the Japanese in the South Pacific...
...instead of directing it. With this picture he became a mensch." It surely marked a ! change from the snazzy, derivative thrillers (Carrie, Body Double) and dope operas (Scarface) that made him notorious. The new picture would be neither parody nor eulogy; it would be the story of a straight arrow, told with a straight face...