Word: badly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Francis Coppola's study of a lonely surveillance expert), Under Fire (as a TIME correspondent in Nicaragua) and Mississippi Burning. His FBI agent bears traces of early Hackmen. Anderson, like Buck Barrow, repeats favorite anecdotes and plays dumber than he is; like Popeye, he wears stumpy ties and catches bad guys on his own obsessive terms. And at the end of each sentence you hear the Hackman laugh: nervous, infectious, conspiratorial and, at bottom, lethal...
...myth. Says Seth Cagin, co-author of We Are Not Afraid, a rigorous account of the Philadelphia murders: "The film suits the fantasy of the Ku Klux Klan that the FBI was an invading tyrannical force that imposed its will on the South because it played dirty." It is bad enough that most Americans know next to nothing about the true story of the civil rights movement. It would be even worse for them to embrace the fabrications in Mississippi Burning...
...limelight with Jimmy Carter and sunk back into the kudzu like Brigadoon. Then there was Hyannis, Mass., which metamorphosed from a decent summer community into the world capital of turquoise John F. Kennedy ashtrays. The place has never recovered from the combination of Kennedy mystique, weak zoning and bad taste...
...Real estate prices will go up, no question about that," adds Bob Dennis, the town Republican Party chairman. This is bad news for many residents whose modest incomes do not match the town's tony image. Says Mike Marceau, a lobster wholesaler: "George Bush does nothing for commercial fishermen. Workingmen can't afford to buy a house here. I don't make enough money to buy property in this town, and I was born here...
Even so, pent-up public enthusiasm for a new American musical of any kind was so great that despite bad word of mouth, some 90,000 customers came during previews, most paying the full price of $50. Says Rubin: "We made a profit during previews." The show built up advance sales as high as $10 million; they still stood at more than $3 million after opening. The day after the barrage of punishing reviews appeared, the box office sold almost $40,000 worth of tickets...