Word: bondingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter joke) and adolescent sex jokes (the heroine, played by Lucy Gutteridge, informs Nick that her name, Hillary, means "she whose bosoms defy gravity") over a dizzying succession of generic spoofs. Beyond the basic sendup, which is of World War II-vintage spy movies, they work in parodies of Bond-style adventures and beach-blanket and malt-shop rock-'n'-roll musicals. Omar Sharif is the veteran star recruited to mock his image and collect the good-sport award from audiences. The dictum that less is more means nothing here; pace and profligacy are everything. This time, though...
...Each day there is a different double feature--usually put together reasonably well. A few years ago, the groupings were more inventive, but now they seem to have found what pays and have decided to stick with it, serving up a steady diet of Woody Allen, Bogart, and James Bond, with only an occasional surprise thrown in. Downstairs, the two other theaters show slightly offbeat first-run films. They don't always stick to the Spielbergian gospel to that has poisoned the suburbs, but are willing to screen films like Entre Nous, currently showing...
...From the Bond Court to the Fairmont, the hotels have been great...
...borrowings are dwarfed by those of such neighbors as Brazil ($96 billion) and Argentina ($43.6 billion), the Bolivian action nonetheless shook moneymen. Phone calls from anxious foreigners flooded embassies, newspapers and government agencies in the capital city of La Paz. On Wall Street, prices slid further on a bond market still edgy over last month's near collapse of Chicago's Continental Illinois...
...result was at times an almost oppressively friendly and strong bond of community, unusual anywhere at Harvard. As Kathy describes it. "I could sit in my room on the third floor and hear the door slam downstairs and hear footsteps, and know who it was, where they were going, and why." And Jeff remembers, "I look back on how close we were freshman year, and it blows me away...