Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allowed to have stewards on the job," he says. But according to the associate director of the Plumbers Association, the steward issue is "merely political"--the real issue is the management of fringe benefits. Meanwhile, Thomas A. Sullivan, the group's associate director, accuses the union of trying to "cloud our offers," adding "we're ready to settle-they aren't." Neither side will predict when the strike will end, and neither side is optimistic...
...make the connection between a Ewing Oil business meeting and the current price of a gallon of gas. Southfork is a ranch out of time, and the Ewing Oil headquarters is a castle in the air-almost literally. The stock shot of the office tower shows a fleecy cloud reflected on the building's façade with the surreal clarity of a painting by Magritte. Dallas realty; Dallas fantasy. The plot is a Rube Goldberg machine of the seven deadly sins, but performed and acted absolutely straight. This gives the viewer options. He can live and die with...
...Paratrooper hits the ground and rolls into a proper landing fall. It is a good jump, a good landing. He looks up at the dense cloud of green parachutes, and he explodes with joy. "You are bea-u-ti-ful!" he screams...
...Fourth of July speech today is seldom the shapely purple cloud of bombast that it once was. That style is nearly extinct. The old eagle-screaming rhapsody, the Everlasting Yea, survives mostly in wistful, or merely empty, references to Jefferson, in Smithsonian pageants or in the elegiac drone of a speaker recalling something that happened a long, long time ago, almost in another country...
Hollywood, back then, worried less about "realism," perhaps realizing that to the unjaded, fantasy is just as "real" as car chases and gunship battles. As the opening credits roll, Mary Poppins sits on a cloud overlooking smoky London. Minutes later, a huge gust of wind blows away a host of prospective nannies applying for the position our heroine seeks. No one believes that it really blows hard enough to whisk away thirty mammarian matrons, or even that young women perch on English cloudbanks. But everyone believes in Mary Poppins, fantastic as she may seem, in a way which makes Luke...