Word: deale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year, The Game meant nothing in the league championship race, but a great deal to a Harvard team searching for respect. Today the Crimson was hoping to show that it was really not as bad as its 2-7 record...
...sense, both groups long for the same unattainable goal--resurrecting some variant of the New Deal coalition. The left wing deludes itself to think that the Democrats can nominate a traditional liberal and still appeal to "middle America." The last three elections show that they can't. Similarly, the moderates hope to nominate a Republican clone and still retain the loyalty of minorities and liberals--which is equally impossible...
...wishful [ending]," he says. "I think it's emotionally satisfying while it may be intellectually confusing." He adds, "I don't care to be thought of as a sentimental director...but I don't mind being thought of as a writer and director who does movies and plays that deal with relationships and character more than action or adventure...
...additional shadow of the Vietnam War. The movie pits the passions of the '60s love and drug culture against the conventions of small-town America, the obligatory collegiate life of demonstration against the rigid demands of a fearful but patriotic older generation. Within the families, though, Scott must deal with a stern, unfeeling father (Bruce Dern) and a disenchanted, prayerful mother (Mariette Hartley), while Ralph must deal with his own widowed mother (Joanna Cassidy...
...Nissan--an Asian actor--stands up he blathers on in basically incomprehensible English. We are meant to see him not only as an enemy, but as a particular type of enemy. He is loud and boorish, all bug-eyes and buck teeth. It is a convenient way to deal with American fears, making Asians seem at once crude and oddly polite and subservient...