Word: decks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wake, then at a dance. At another moment, a pair of guilty lovers (Ed Harris and Amy Madigan), emblematic of the dissatisfactions that dare not speak their name in all the earth's Waxahachies, betray themselves to his wife (Lindsay Grouse) by the way they handle a deck of cards in a rummy game. Best of all is the Communion service that climaxes the movie, where, with amazing grace, Benton moves almost imperceptibly from reality to fantasy in order to find for his people the kind of reconciliation with their fates that he sought for himself by making this...
CONVENTION. Between strategy meetings with Walter Mondale and work sessions with aides who are drafting her acceptance speech, Geraldine Ferraro took time last Saturday afternoon to meet with TIME Correspondent John F. Stacks. Savoring the sun on the deck of a rented Lake Tahoe resort home, Ferraro was relaxed and jocular and occasionally complained about the inevitable "sexist" questions. Her husband John Zaccaro and her daughters Laura and Donna sat near by and sometimes interjected thoughts of their own. Excerpts from the interview...
...considerably enlarging a seven-story brick apartment house without disturbing it. The solution: a slim, new, 35-story tower that straddles the old building. The new building is abruptly interrupted by a kind of roof garden with a domed swimming pool and a jogging track. Arquitectonica plans to deck out the building's façade in a bold, Mari-mekko-like pattern of white glass, black marble and red-enameled metal...
...rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic." Through much of the debate, Reagan was noticeably distracted and impatient, occasionally interjecting the appeal, "Can't you fellows work this...
When we left the next day, an Iranian tugboat followed us for 50 miles. The fully loaded ship rode low on the sea. On deck, the captain and a few officers were silent and unsmiling as they searched the horizon with binoculars. "I know if anything happens, there will be panic among the crew," Captain Chu Ching said...