Word: cannon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jaunty minimalism of the twelfth is getting good notices. "The critical success is great," says Norris, "but the main thing is still the public. The critics can rave, but if the people don't come to see your movie, what good is it?" Christopher Pearce, head of production for Cannon Films, the company that last year hired Norris to make six movies, is pleased by the lack of artistic ambition. "That is a great advantage," Pearce says, "because he's not out there wanting to do Shakespeare." Rather than Richard II, the next Norris movie will be Invasion U.S.A...
...descent. In Los Angeles, ever the scholar at the University of Southern California, he went on The Gong Show, a sort of television Ship of Fools, and won second place with a trained plant act. (He put a fern through a hoop, shot a plant out of a cannon, sawed a plant in half. An old lady from Santa Monica beat him with a Sophie Tucker impersonation...
...been named White House director of communications, with responsibility for selling his friends in the Administration to his friends in the media. The appointment was a concession to Reagan's right-wing supporters, who want greater representation on the White House staff. Said Washington Post White House Correspondent Lou Cannon: "The question is, How can you be an effective spokesman for policies and people you yourself don't agree with?" White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan acknowledged Buchanan's potential conflicts: "I reminded Pat of an old phrase, 'accepting the King's shilling.' He agrees that he will support...
...live through every shot again and have the wildest visions," he noted, having confessed the secret of how beautiful war can seem in the stops between its terrors: "The circular trembling aperture of the French and Belgian searchlights, like a transcendental airplane . . . the amazing apocalyptic sound of the giant cannon . . . A rider at full gallop in the dark . . . Poor pig that I am, I can only live in dreams." War went beyond art and burned out his fantasies. What it left behind was a hard, copious ash of realism, and an unassuageable will to describe what...
...Democratica, the main opposition group, did not endorse the protest for fear of running afoul of the siege order's ban on public gatherings; nonetheless, about ten Alianza leaders lined up in front of Santiago's cathedral and sang the national anthem. As they dispersed, a water cannon lumbered into view and began spraying. "The government can claim a 'military success,' " said Alianza President Ricardo Lagos, a socialist. "But the fact is that the army had to act as an enemy occupying a foreign country...