Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people live, he prefers to end with a metaphor, "the Onion Theory of Comfort." In this, the slowly evolving attributes of comfort -- privacy, intimacy, domesticity, pleasure, ease, leisure, efficiency, convenience -- form a series of layers, partly transparent so that all can be partly seen at once. And then, "common sense will do the rest...
From parody to paradigm in less than two hours: it is a journey few movie heroes ever make. But then, few movies attempt to shift moods as radically as Nothing in Common does. Start with David Basner (Tom Hanks), prince of the yuppies, a man whose smooth rise in an ad agency is not allowed to interfere with his commitment to the uncommitted singles life. Then watch as his aged parents (Jackie Gleason and Eva Marie Saint) separate. The father loses his job and health just as the son is about to land a prize account. Now David must face...
...brave theme for a movie to take up these days, especially for one that might like to be mistaken for a summer comedy. Nothing in Common never settles into a self-confident stride, but it does dislocate, discomfit. You might remember it after a lot of less edgy films have been forgotten...
...because he could think of no one more qualified to head the nation in an international age. A wooden speaker, he was elected Governor of New York in 1954, but failed to win a second term when he was challenged by Republican Nelson Rockefeller, a millionaire with a more common touch...
...Democratic primary in Georgia's Fifth Congressional District means little. Its significance far transcends such things. It is about friendships and loyalties, history and change. It is about the ambitions of two men with very different backgrounds and styles who had -- and still have -- an important vision in common. It is about the coming of age of a movement, one that Bond and Lewis helped found 25 years ago, which sought for blacks the right to participate fully in the political process...