Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...printing plant for the Boston Globe newspaper she has managed the improbable. With a long, gorgeous, barrel-vaulted main hall in particular, Lohan has again made industrial modernism beautiful -- and without a bit of frippery. W.G. Clark and Charles Menefee have accomplished their own unlikely feat with the cool, cool Middleton Inn: here are glass houses that delight as glass houses have not delighted in a generation. Overlooking a South Carolina river, the inn boasts rooms that are perfect modernist compositions: light, airy, lively, serene. Clark and Menefee's work, like most of the best work by younger Americans today...
...momentous importance will find this novel more than adequate. The quirks and unexpected twists of life are examined with care that exposes layer upon layer of meaning. Loving family relationships, studied unsparingly, pulse with hidden resentments. Social conventions--"exchanging commonplaces and untruths"--are scrutinized to reveal the complexity beneath cool facades. Courtship, marriage, remarriage, cohabitation, bachelorhood and spinsterhood--all achieve an encompassing inventive dimension...
...said, It seems the national Democrats have already ordered ice to cool the champagne for a World Series locker room-like celebration in the Oval Office in '88--one to which Reagan presumably wouldn't send a congratulatory telegram. "The voters have rejected Reaganism!" their thinking goes. "Don't you see? They like Reagan-but not his philosophy!!" That's probably true. But to think that voters went for Democrats because the Dems formed, let alone articulated, some sensible, coherent alternative to Reaganism is just ridiculous...
...likes to make movies, and he likes to do it cheaply. Why do Rocky and Adrian come to the skating rink when it's closed? We wonder. Simple, Avildsen says: it cost less to film without all the extras needed to make the place look open. That's pretty cool, you think, not pretty cheap...
Screenwriter-Director Leon Marr (adapting a novel by Joan Barfoot) is a neat freak with images. Every shot is composed precisely enough to win Edna's approval. The cool, creepy, witty splendor of this Canadian psychodrama is that it resides simultaneously inside and outside Edna's pristine, pathetic mindscape, from her daft rapture over the perfectly made bed to the moment when she hears of her husband's infidelity and tears and saliva cascade down her face. Dancing in the Dark dares to be misunderstood as a case history; in fact, it is Heartburn with a haunting irregular heartbeat...