Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie's stickiness stems from its overwhelming sentimentality. It is a piece of high corn, shot through with the kind of cheesy sentimentality one ordinarily finds on TV shows like Family--the kind that are below even The Waltons The script, adapted by adapted Thompson from his 1978 Broadway play of the same name, is sappy. the characters are to varying degrees flat, and the emotional neatness of the whole is a bit stilling...
...CORN has to be crap On Gold Pond is reminiscent of another film that is certainly not discardable--Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. Both movies have the same wild American optimism that everything can be overcome, that no problem is too much for well-meaning people. It's Wonderful Life was much more carefully crafted. Its direction was far better than Mark Rydell's in On Golden Pond; Capra's film avoids the dippy touches like shots of water lillies set to flute music and the cozy nature symbolism that pervade the Pond. Still, both films...
...Reagan dined happily with his family on turkey, corn-bread dressing and mince pie at his Santa Barbara ranch, the frayed tempers and bruised feelings of congressional leaders also began to mend. On reflection, the great budget battle was probably as unnecessary as it was unseemly. The confrontation had centered on a matter of roughly $2 billion, a totally symbolic figure since it represented a mere .28% of the $700 billion budget for fiscal 1982, which is running $80 billion in the red. Not only will the $2 billion have to be fought over once again between...
...past three or four years. Cats are also becoming a factor in the American economy. Owners will shell out $1.4 billion for 1 million tons of cat food that carry such whisker-licking names as Meow Mix and Tender Vittles. These processed delights consist largely of soybean, corn and wheat. One hundred eighty-nine million dollars' worth of cat-box filler will inevitably follow. Revenues to veterinarians, animal psychologists, pet shops and grooming parlors will add even more millions. All of this must be added to the initial cost of buying the beast...
...majoring in biology at Cornell, and adding a botany Ph.D., she began methodically cultivating maize on a little plot near an inlet of Long Island Sound. McClintock, funded by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, kept careful watch over the kaleidoscopic changes of color in the leaves and kernels of corn from one generation to the next. The changes were produced by underlying modifications in genetic structure. At the time, though, no one understood how DNA was put together or how it worked. Indeed, only a few researchers were convinced it really was the molecule that carried heredity's message...