Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This movie is so busy rushing about spending money and amazing us that it has no time for emotion. Nicholas Rowe's Holmes has only seconds to weep for his dead mentor and love interest before tripping off to participate in some or other breathtaking spectacle of modern cinema...
...moved. I grabbed the sink for support, and ran my hand back from my forehead, flattening the reed-like protrusions that stood in disarray. "We had a little fun while you were asleep," they seemed to say, but I wasn't concerned with them anymore. It was their dead comrades, fallen in the night, which elicited not concern, but utter horror...
...ironic that this particular message has fallen victim to the commercial messages. The Grinch supposedly discovers that Christmas does not come from a package, that it is not all commercialism. But the network executives at ABC proved the Grinch dead-wrong, as they stole time from under him for just such commercialism: advertisements. Commercialization of holidays is always crass, but especially during the Grinch. Unfortunately this year's Grinch did show the true meaning of Christmas...
...what better way to attack mutual enmity? Lown's linkage with Soviet doctors can be considered a subset of this. Such a Samantha Smith approach to international relations is particularly attractive because it looks innocuous. It takes a pretty tough cookie to bring up the nasty issue of millions dead in Afghanistan when Mikhail offers us his best dancers...
...Russian people cannot be expected to put real pressure on their government in this matter. They, unlike American citizens during the Vietnam era, are kept in almost total darkness concerning the war in Afghanistan. In several instances, the Soviets have been known to secretly bury their dead in mass graves rather than send them home to grieving families. Last year a popular Radio Moscow announcer who publicly criticized Soviet policy in Afghanistan disappeared from public view overnight. If world public opinion is going to influence Moscow's foreign policy, as it did ours in Vietnam, it will have...