Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours of tireless scrutiny, for even as one scrutinizes so does one grow tired--hence my previous comment--if you will reminisce--that ingeniously juxtaposed the two words 'tired' and 'scrutiny'. I am, of course getting at the indisputable biblical overtones, or more precisely, if I might be so bold, the form of Christ, as represented in the character, or personae, if I may, of the main character, or personae, if I may, in the plan. Thank you. Have a good weekend...
With its critical, popular and insider acclaim swelling, Platoon began to shoulder its way toward the front rank of Oscar favorites. By now it would have to be counted as the front runner, and Hollywood is furrowing its back with self-congratulatory pats for making this big bold message movie. To Stone, Hollywood's claim of paternity for Platoon must seem a rich joke. He and Hollywood both know that Platoon -- like The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, The Boys in Company C, The Killing Fields and nearly all the serious movies about the war in Southeast Asia -- secured its major...
...buck; all those yellow folks blow up real good. Aging lefties can see the film as a demonstration of war's inhuman futility. Graybeards on the right may call it a tribute to our fighting men, in whatever foreign adventure. The intelligentsia can credit Platoon with expressing, in bold cinematic strokes, Stone's grand themes of comradeship and betrayal. And the average youthful moviegoer -- too young to remember Viet Nam even as the living-room war -- may discover where Dad went in the 1960s and why he came home changed or came home in a body...
What's wrong with this picture is its almost bizarre irrelevance to the world outside the White House windows. Ronald Reagan's Administration has been gravely wounded by Iranscam, faces newly assertive Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress, and seems bereft of the bold initiatives that might save the last two years of his presidency from lame-duck drift. Yet he carries on with the same unruffled optimism and inattention to the messy details of policy that have marked his administrative style since his early days as Governor of California...
Loyal readers of such Fisher classics as How to Cook a Wolf, The Gastronomical Me, Consider the Oyster and With Bold Knife and Fork are familiar with her life, which includes three marriages and two daughters. Born in Michigan, she was raised in Whittier, Calif., where her father Rex Kennedy was a newspaper editor and publisher. "I am a fifth-generation writer," she says with pride, "even though now I dictate into a cassette. It's awful...