Word: cannier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie is sleeker, cannier, luckier -- and more disturbing. No wonder feminists have cried foul over Fatal Attraction: Alex is the '80s career woman as homicidal vamp. Says Marsha Kinder, a film professor at the University of Southern California: "In this film, it is not sexual repression that causes psychosis. It is sexual liberation. For men, Alex's sexuality is a succubus; it saps a man's strength. Fatal Attraction is also about how men fear women. Because in this movie women have the power, positively and negatively. When Alex hears Dan threaten her, she doesn't take it seriously...
...cast. Whoopi Goldberg suffers knowingly as Celie; Danny Glover, as "Mr.," looks vainly for a note to strike besides befuddled menace; Margaret Avery inhabits Shug without illuminating her. Everyone seems reluctant to let loose here, taking a cue from their too reverent boss. Perhaps The Color Purple demanded a cannier, more daring director: Steven Spielberg. The Good...
...year later, the movement to stop the University from helping to underwrite apartheid was dead, effectively quashed by an administration no more moral but certainly cannier than its predecessors. They set up a committee: they announced they would review companies and hoc: and nothing has happened since Nothing except Harvard abstaining on one innocuous shareholder resolution after another. Not even having the guts to vote against the damn things half the time, because that might get students angry again. And last month, after testing the waters for a year or two and deciding the campus really is quiet, the Corporation...
After the letter was first disclosed, in the Oklahoma City Times, White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes described Michael as "hounded by the media." Added Speakes: "I don't think the President has any problems with the way Michael is doing business." Then cannier heads prevailed. Later the same day Speakes announced that Presidential Counsel Fred Fielding would advise all four Reagan children on possible conflicts of interest, a procedure said to have been planned but not carried out before the President was shot March 30. Michael Reagan then bitterly announced that he would quit Dana Ingalls...