Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ferraro: "She comes across as too abrasive." Richard Wirthlin, the President's pollster, suggests her audiences are swollen by the converted and the merely curious. "She is a historical celebrity," he says. "Whether they support her or not, they applaud the fact that one more barrier has been broken...
...suit, she also tries to get at the inner workings of Nolte. He, on the other hand is too busy with Eddie, his problem student. Ralph Macchio reprises his role from Karate Kid as The Shrimp Who Kicks Ass aka The Tough Kid From a Broken Home Who Is All Right Underneath--Really. Don't wince; the roles, dialogue and intentions of the script are so telegraphed, outlined, highlighted, and underlined that only a Columbia film-student could miss the point...
...industry is already waiting for IBM's next acquisition. Predicts Morgan Stanley's Weil: "Now that the precedent has been set and the taboo broken, IBM won't stop at Rolm." One possible target is Intel, a leading manufacturer of semiconductor chips, the key components of computers. IBM already owns 20% of Intel and may decide to go for more. -By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York and Michael Moritz/San Francisco
...findings of Mack and his colleagues; at the same congressional hearing during which Mack was raising his fears, a Tufts researcher ridiculed the the importance implicity placed on the nuclear quesetion to the exclusion of other childhood worries. But certainly no psychiatrist as prominent as Coles had yet broken to publicly with the concensus of many of his colleagues, and the publicity that accompanied this shot was commensurate to the challenge it represented...
...directed this somewhat autobiographical tale with customary finesse. Scenes that might have been heavy handed under another's direction are saved from melodrama by Benton's understated humor. When Moses, a born whistler in the dark, looks at the farm devestated by the storm with shutters and doors and broken glass lying everywhere, he says brightly. "Everything's little bent, but it's still here...