Word: catches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comet when that celestial object races around the sun in 1986; similar U.S. plans have been dropped. Even in fields where they are clearly behind, such as genetic engineering and cell biology, important to their national goal of finding a cancer cure, the Japanese have organized an effort to catch up with the West...
...also stepping up its marketing efforts. One key target is California, which accounts for 10% of all new-car sales in the U.S. Ford's share of that prime market is only 14%, and, says Petersen, "We were on the verge of being a disappearing name there." To catch up, Ford has quadrupled its market research over eight years and is conducting elaborate consumer samplings. Says Executive Vice President...
...neophyte actor took a couple of Richard Pryor hand-me-down roles and parlayed them into movie stardom. In 48 HRS., released last Christmas, Murphy played a sassy convict sprung from stir for two days to help Tough Cop Nick Nolte catch a couple of killers. The film's director, Walter Hill, says of Eddie: "This kid is so enormously talented he can get away with anything." This time Eddie ran away with the movie: 48 HRS., for which he was paid $200,000, has tallied an imposing $78 million at the box office...
...Bruno Bettelheim, in effect playing themselves playing themselves. Like Allen, they have perfect pitch. But Allen skewers not only the modern TV form but the loopy manner of the show's antique sources. Dick Hyman contributes songs like You May Be Six People, but I Love You that catch the flavor of hasty topicality, and Cinematographer Gordon Willis recaptures the conventions of oldtime photography. The match between his footage and genuine historical shots is perfect...
...Ritchie's best work (Downhill Racer, Semi-Tough), the film is full of shrewd throwaway behavioral observations. Sonny, for example, has a daughter (Kristen Vigard) who is a little compendium of spacy teen-age confusions; one minute she is watching porn tapes, the next she is trying to catch falling snowflakes on her tongue. Michael Leeson, who wrote scripts for the TV series Taxi, uses that show's mixture of urban gallantry and paranoia in his first feature. He has given Williams his best chance to vent his singular, hysterical style in a movie and provided Matthau, stooped...