Word: chorused
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...have a certain rhythm in your life." While scoring 18 touchdowns, rookie Elbert ("Ickey") Woods has smoothed the black edge off several unenlightened symbols that have crept into currency in Cincinnati. Fans have taken to calling the stadium "the Jungle," and throughout the games they chant like a minstrel chorus, "Who dey think gonna beat dem Bengals?" Ickey's popular touchdown "shuffle" would be the last straw were it not so preposterously white that it somehow saves...
First, it gets the texture right, from the Cabinet meetings presided over with brusque efficiency by Perkins to the crowd of reporters that provides a constant heckling chorus. The plot is imaginative but plausible, just a half- step beyond today's headlines. When the power workers' union goes on strike to protest Perkins' economic plans, soccer stadiums are plunged into darkness and the nation into harsh second thoughts about the new regime. Later, to dramatize his views on disarmament, Perkins arranges to have a nuclear weapon dismantled on live TV. "I once tried middle of the road," he tells...
...similarities to Platoon. In both films, two strong men fight to establish American values in a hostile country, and to claim the soul of an innocent. In both films, the local nonwhites -- yellow or black -- are less a group of dramatic characters than a plot device, a shadow, a chorus, a landscape, an idea...
Salinas' is but one voice in what has become a rising chorus of debtor discontent. Crippled by stagnant growth and a combined foreign debt of more than $400 billion, Latin American governments are finding it increasingly unacceptable to shoulder interest payments for loans that only push them deeper into the red. Yet the banks that made the loans, many of them privately held U.S. institutions, have come up with few acceptable solutions...
...readier to accept his concessions. Repeated pleas came from Egypt's Mubarak, Jordan's Hussein, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. Just as important, such close U.S. friends as Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, France's President Francois Mitterrand and West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Kohl joined the persistent chorus...