Word: cheerfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Better still, it gives the movie's creators room to move around. Much of Aliens' originality results from the fact that the filmmakers have not confined themselves to the conventions of the horror genre. Without strain, and with a kind of manic good cheer, they meld into the film elements from many another pop tradition: action, adventure, even military comedy, anti- Establishment preachment and a well-taken satire on the yuppie mentality...
...members of the party carry a heavier symbolic weight. Bishop (Lance Henriksen), an android who proves himself a distinct improvement over the traitor robot of the first film. Bishop offers a prejudice Ripley has to overcome and, in the end, some surprising heroics for the audience to cheer. The other outsider is a different case. Burke (Paul Reiser) is a junior executive in "the company," the monopoly that has all of space to profit from. He has absorbed its corporate culture all too well. In Alien, of course, company leaders, without warning employees of the danger, callously ordered them...
Democrats could also take cheer from a miserable showing by supporters of far-right Extremist Lyndon LaRouche. A preliminary survey by the Associated Press indicated that 40 or more candidates allied to LaRouche lost nominating campaigns for elective offices in New Jersey, California, Iowa and Alabama. One initially unchallenged LaRouche candidate in Orange County, Calif., was so weak that a last-minute write-in campaign for County Democratic Chairman Bruce Sumner came within 500 votes of stopping him. Sumner, who jumped into the race to halt the LaRouche onslaught, is expected to call for a recount...
Elsewhere the mood of the special day varied from good cheer to quiet pride to plain antagonism. At the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 300 students demonstrated against the regents' refusal to grant an honorary degree to jailed South African Black Leader Nelson Mandela; later, new graduates listened politely to U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar's persuasions for peace on earth. At Haverford College near Philadelphia, former Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis doffed his academic hood and rejected an honorary degree after 28 faculty members protested his handling of the air controllers' strike five years...
...Thanks a lot, guys, for coming," said FBI Agent Robert Friedrick, supervisor of the bureau's Organized Crime Strike Force in Cleveland. On their own time, some 60 of his Ohio colleagues had gathered outside a federal courthouse in Washington to cheer him as Friedrick was arraigned on five counts of lying to the Justice Department and the FBI. The 13-year bureau veteran is accused of protecting Teamster President Jackie Presser from indictment in a payroll-padding scheme. "We were there to show him we still support him in this time of need," said Special Agent Daniel Gordon. Gordon...