Word: dismalness
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...Waterston's plodding earnestness can be a bit much, and the political- correctness level is inordinately high. But there is much truth and tenderness in this family drama set against a backdrop of racial tensions in a 1950s Southern community. Easily the best of a dismal crop of new network shows...
...Waterston's plodding earnestness can be a bit much, and the political- correctness level is inordinately high. But there is much truth and tenderness in this family drama set against a backdrop of racial tensions in a 1950s Southern community. Easily the best of a dismal crop of new network shows...
Oliver Stone also has a story to tell -- about a dismal day in Dallas that changed American history. Last June, TIME criticized the plot of Stone's new movie, JFK -- out this week -- which argues that Jack Kennedy was felled in a carefully concealed coup d'etat. Stone said our comments were part of an Establishment cover-up (they were not). Finally we got together to discuss his views. "He came armed to the teeth with his research," says correspondent Martha Smilgis. "It still didn't convince me that there was a general conspiracy, but his movie gets you thinking...
...sacred cows in American education, is under attack. For decades, thanks to strong union contracts and ingrained notions of academic freedom, underpaid schoolteachers ! could at least console themselves with the fact that they were pretty well assured of job security for life. But after years of dismal school performance, and under the strictures of shrinking budgets, legislators are suddenly reneging on the deal. "Professionalism and tenure are antithetical," says Chester Finn Jr., a former Assistant Secretary of Education and a proponent of free-market solutions to educational problems. "Teachers can't have it both ways...
...with action sequences, a genius for inventive detail that reads clearly even at his preferred pace, which is warp speed. But even he has to strain to fill these spaces; and his resort to a food fight, symbolizing Peter's rebonding with his old pals, the Lost Boys, is dismal and realized without conviction...