Word: cynically
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...Small Affair begins as the chronicle of an obsession but insists on dragging Charles beyond that, Charles could easily stay a cynic, pick up Joel's sunglasses, and say, every now and then, what the... But it cannot. Fantasy cannot be allowed to stay fantasy. (Last summer's Oxford Blues, for all the brashness of Nick (Rob Lowe) could at least keep that line clear. His love, a model spotted by a different lens, purred. "It was a wonderful night, but it was only a night. But we can still be friends." Said a pouting Nick: "You were never...
...Administration, "the rules are rigged" against too many Americans. "It isn't right that a woman should get paid 59? on the dollar for the same work as a man." Turning to cuts in student-loan funds, Ferraro bluntly addressed Reagan: "You fit the classic definition of a cynic; you know the price of everything, but the value of nothing...
Anyway, Americans were in the mood for a good party. A cynic would say that patriotism is an impulse that consults the economic indicators, and he would be partly right. Americans are more hopeful about their economic futures now, or so the polls say, than they have been in the past five years. What politicians refer to as the Misery Index (unemployment plus inflation) is down 10 points since 1980. The rate of economic growth is high (a breathtaking 8.8% in the first quarter of the year). Many shadows remain over the economy, over Central America, over the Middle East...
...cynic might view this recent phenomenon as a propaganda ploy by members of the self-important Baby Boom generation. They were the coolest generation while they were under 30, and they intend to remain the coolest now that they are approaching middle...
...risky for a viewer to sweep too many thematic generalizations into this dusty pile of celluloid. Indeed, a cynic would declare that the only thing this quintet has in common is Hitchcock's greed. The film maker always had an acute eye for commerce. He worked in an economically reliable genre with the industry's biggest stars. He would agree to dump a longtime collaborator like Composer Bernard Herrmann (who worked on eight Hitchcock films from 1955 to 1964) if the studio applied pressure. And when asked why he withheld these five films from theaters...