Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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European directors do not dare or care to compete with Hollywood in the splatter sweepstakes. When murder outs in a Continental art film, it is always with a twist. In Krzysztof Kieslowski's doom-dreary A Short Film About Killing , (winner of the third-place Jury Prize), a young man hails a cab and pointlessly murders the driver. Takes forever! Much jollier is Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals, an opera film about some Portuguese aristocrats. It proceeds at a gentle lull for an hour, then explodes in a delicious orgy of artificial limbs, charred torsos and a family feast...
...failed to bring an end to the strikes, which persisted in the form of massive absenteeism at Nowa Huta and some other job sites. The onslaught underscored the Jaruzelski regime's utter inability to find a common language with Poland's restive and embittered workers. The attack seemed to doom the government's ambitious plans for economic restructuring, which depend on the labor force's willingness to make temporary sacrifices while the country's centralized industries are gradually exposed to more and more free-market forces. "Everybody knows what is at stake here," said Walesa, following the Nowa Huta attack...
...Harvard women's water polo team has adopted a trapping defense which can shut a team down for 35 seconds. The pressure has spelled doom for many an opposing team this season...
After returning to Dukakis' staff following the Ferraro campaign Sasso and another gubernatorial aides urged Dukakis to run for president, saying his optimism and record would offer the Democratic Party a fresh alternative to the "doom and gloom" approach Sasso blamed for the crushing defeats of Mondale in 1984 and President Carter...
Republicans may whine about the "gloom and doom" and the rampant inflation of the Carter years. Soaring inflation and interest rates during the Carter years had less to do with national policies than with an unfavorable world financial scene caused by the energy crisis. And the drop in oil prices during the Reagan years, likewise, should not be credited to the Administration...