Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House. In the galleries, a tearful crowd of suffragists started singing "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." The next year, the Senate added its grudging consent, 66 to 30. This time there was no singing by the women. "To their weary senses," said Suffragist Leader Carrie Chapman Catt, "the only meaning of the vote just taken was that the Senate had at last surrendered...given in to the people it represented...
...close five of its 22 U.S. plants, plus one in Britain, and it is ending the manufacture of lift trucks in Ohio and moving some production to Britain and South Korea. "The strong dollar actually encourages the transfer of manufacturing to places other than the U.S.," says Erskine Chapman, Caterpillar's head of worldwide sales. The company has arranged new manufacturing agreements with firms in South Korea, West Germany and Norway. Executive Vice President Peter Donis recently hinted that Caterpillar may even reduce operations in Peoria, where it has maintained its corporate headquarters for nearly 60 years...
Much of the movie succeeds because of director Michael Chapman's willingness to confront seriously the social issues facing his characters. In fact, because he bravely tackles so many issues at once. All the Right Moves often seems more like a series of social statements than the story of an adolescent's struggle to escape the steel mill mentality...
...movie has other flaws, as well. Instead of developing issues like the ones posed by Cruise's girlfriend (Lea Thomson)--who attacks the barriers non-athletes encounter in getting beyond jobs at the local grocery store--Chapman repeatedly resorts to less dangerous, more predictable cheap sell tactics. A student's "getting off" in typing class to the amusement of his peers is one of several examples. Because director Chapman seems afraid to go completely beyond one level of sophomoric romance, All the Right Moves never quite reaches its potential...
More importantly, Chapman attempts to make everything work out neatly in the end, and as a result the final scene is highly anti-climactic. Instead of leaving the theatre unsettled and introspective, the audience wonders whether the film is principally a social commentary or an attempt to disguise conventional high school antics beneath a veneer of sincerity...