Word: brims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...general manager, says. "Hey, Amigos--Ees Cool at Air-Condeetioned South of the Border." "The sign laws have gotten a lot more restrictive since, but we still have our leases," Holliday adds. He points to the observation sombrero, where visitors pay 50 cents to ride 165 feet to the brim and look out over the highway. "To us it's just a big billboard. We needed some southbound exposure off the interstate...
From atop the Sombrero observation tower, I put a quarter in the telescope and then realized there was nothing much to see except the lady making change in the Mexico Shop West. (The brim of the sombrero blocked all view of the Mexico Shop East.) In the Coffee Casa, I met a young coal miner on his way south to a Florida vacation. We talk about the coal strike, we talk about EI Salvador, he buys me coffee, I buy him beer, we agree the country would be in better shape were he and I in-charge...
...natural. You stop looking for holes, because you know there won't be any. You stop looking for three-dimensional realism, too, because this movie doesn't operate that way. From the first moment you see Indiana Jones walking through the Peruvian jungle with his leather jacket and snap-brim hat, zapping nasties with his bullwhip. Raiders ripples with confidence and intrigue. You simply don't have any more time to think. Cinematographer Douglas Slocombe, best known for more elegant films like Julia or Nijinsky, has shot the movie in a sumptuous style that is exaggerated and resonant without being...
...competitor in the booming field of genetic engineering, he appealed to some time-honored precepts. Learning should be an end in itself, not a way to earn vast fortunes. Teachers should be teaching, searching, thinking, and not competing with each other for profit and fame. In a world as brim full of the commercial and the exploitative as ours, Harvard should serve as a sanctuary of something higher. And though we are not convinced these were the only reasons for rejecting the commercial enterprise, we applaud his decision...
...author (Burr, The Best Man) and perennial talk-show guest, tossed his hat into the ring because, he says, "I'm terrified at the caliber of people in politics." By way of example, Vidal cites President Reagan's Inaugural Address: "It had all the resonance of a Brim coffee commercial." Besides a certain verbal flair, Vidal brings experience to his candidacy: he ran an energetic though unsuccessful New York congressional race in 1960. True, he has not voted since 1964 and has lived in Italy for much of the past ten years, but Vidal thinks Californians will overlook...