Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite those faults, it's difficult to see how a movie as fun as Ferris Bueller's Day Off can possibly avoid becoming this summer's most popular comedy. Don't expect the movie to be profound, or for that matter, even realistic. But you can expect to laugh right through the surprising closing lines...
...future of the country is not that communists are threatening the stability of a U.S. ally which has claimed to maintain Western values, but rather that his government is evolving rapidly into an Eastern Block nation itself. The limits to which South Africa is willing to go to avoid recognizing the humanity of its majority population is equal only to the repression prevelent in the world's notoriously closed societies. If Pik Botha truly fears the totalitarianism that characterizes many communist governments, he should properly fear the direction of his own regime...
Inevitably, too, some will think that America's worst -- poverty, homelessness, prejudice -- makes offensive an enterprise that so accentuates the positive. We have tried in our stories to point out that much remains to be done for the U.S. to fulfill its promise to all its citizens, and to avoid what Senior Writer Lance Morrow in this issue calls the "manic habit" Americans have "of thinking they are either the best of peoples or the worst of peoples...
...Oscar Hammerstein II. Although Hammerstein became a pillar of the mainstream musical, some of his revered standards, notably Oklahoma! and South Pacific, were seen the way Sondheim's work often is now, as daringly unromantic and political. Where Sondheim genuinely differs from the past is in his effort to avoid writing pop ditties so catchy and lyrics so generic that they are instantly detachable from the show in which they appear: perhaps his only universally known song is Send In the Clowns, from 1973's A Little Night Music. He studied with the experimental composer Milton Babbitt and still prefers...
...sentiment was shared by New York Governor Mario Cuomo, surely one of the most popular graduation speakers (over 100 invitations), who told the class of '86 at the State University of New York at Albany, where one of his daughters was graduating, "Today's challenge is mostly to avoid embarrassing Madeline...