Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CONVENTIONAL film-maker, Avildsen said he had no secret dreams waiting to burst onto the screen, no particular places to show or tales to tell. A good story and good characters, in the median sense of the word, is what he likes. His opinion of artsy films, such as Room with a View, is no-nonsense Hollywood: "It was pretty," he said, "but it was endless. The characters weren't that compelling." Certainly not as compelling as, say, Apollo Creed...
...share credit and camera angles, the President picked up the first of two dozen pens -- one for each letter of his name so as to maximize the number of souvenirs -- and signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986. But when those around him saw his handiwork, there was a burst of laughter. "I was in such a hurry," Reagan confessed, "I wrote my last name first." The President remedied the slip by squeezing in a cramped Ronald in front of Reagan...
...Cameron burst into the mainstream as writer and director of The Terminator, and it is this picture that film historians and sociologists of the future will watch over and over again, their as-yet-unborn eyes slowly glazing over. It might have been another film altogether, just another cheap sci-fi flick gathering lichen on the UHF channels. But at one point in the pre-production stage Cameron approached Arnold Schwarzenegger--to play the hero...
Contrary to some isolated pockets of popular belief, this man is far from stupid. When presented with Cameron's script he said, in a machine gun burst of inspiration, "Vy don't I play...
...home in an area stretching from the Great Lakes down through the Midwest. By last week Michigan had suffered 22 straight days of downpours. Some 2,700 people were evacuated from floods around Chicago, and St. Louis was partly submerged. A damaged dam in Wisconsin was threatening to burst. A tornado ripped through Oklahoma City...