Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Knows Best. He may even believe the myth he is peddling. But its weight crushes him, forces him to kill the thing he should love. By the end of this fine-handed thriller, the stairs leading from living room to bedroom are littered with bloody archetypes: mom at the bottom, stepdad at the top, daughter in between poised to destroy the black widower. Donald E. Westlake based his sleek script on the case of a New Jersey serial killer. Director Joseph Ruben brings his no-nonsense classicism to what could have been just another tabloid horror story. And Schoelen...
...problem, as Kalb perceives it, is that journalism has become a business. Today journalism is not only a calling, it's a business, and business requires accountants and this bottom-line compulsion that has very little to do with my image of journalism," he says...
...avoid saddling customers with too much debt. Officers at Chicago's Continental Illinois are instructed to urge consumers to use the loans for necessities, not just to buy expensive goodies. The best advice to would-be borrowers remains the oldest: read the fine print before signing on the bottom line...
...most fascinating aspects of the Hart affair is the reaction of other public figures. They downplay the importance of qualities like judgment and integrity and say we should focus on the issues. Well, we are not electing an issue. We are electing a man, and the bottom line in this matter is that Americans do not want a President who cheats on his wife...
...small Hanna Winery, for example, is no neat, well-behaved rectangle but an asymmetrical ziggurat with type stacked in surprising ways. For a poster meant to express the idea of summer, a fragment of architectural statuary is enclosed within a flaming triangle, bracketed by scratched asymmetrical bars top and bottom, placed over a regular field of tiny squares and beneath an action-painting slew of paint drips. Instead of hokey chaos, it is jam-packed, allusive, improbably coherent...