Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservative writer. With considerable relish and fluent wit, Buckley stirs a plot involving the treasonous activities of Britain's leading scientist and the Soviet-bred daughter of an American journalist. The amiable Oakes frequently gets lost in the flashbacks and Kremlinology, but that is to be expected. Buckley's bad guys always get more attention than his good guys...
Been a long twilight for the good working-class people of Hadleyville, Pa. Detroit closed the car factory, and life is desperation on the dole. For bad times, big gambles: send slick-shaggy Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton) to Tokyo so he can persuade a thriving Japanese automaker to establish a plant in his hometown. Then, when the do-it-our-way executives of Assan Motors demand that their American employees work harder for less money, have Hunt convince his pals, speciously, that there is a pot of gold at the end of the assembly line. Poor, distraught workers, when they...
...perhaps years, ahead as it tries to recover the former leader's riches. The jockeying was also an early test of relations between President Reagan, who has personally pledged to treat Marcos with "dignity," and Philippine President Corazon Aquino, who has indicated she would consider it an act of bad faith for the White House to protect the wily former President. Last week Washington attempted to strike an artful balance between the competing interests. While the Justice Department intervened in federal court to help secure release of the documents, the State Department was busy trying, unsuccessfully as it turned...
Glossy magazines have their appeal, and were this movie not so abominably bad, audiences would have been content to watch two beautiful people doing the F-thing for two hours. Yet, I suspect 9 1/2 Weeks will die on the vine, for audiences are willing to take emotional alienation only so far, and this type of fantasy is more like a nightmare...
...Life isn't fair," is the proverbial response to a bad lottery number. This axiom is indeed a truism in the real world where people who have more money are able to afford better housing. Why not adopt this approach for housing at Harvard? Undeniably, a suite in Lowell House would get more on the market than one at North House, in Harvard's terms. How about offering those spacious suites to the highest freshmen bidders...