Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then they've set him to knocking on the wrong door anyway. What do people as privileged as Parrish and his family, at least as they are presented in Meet Joe Black, know about life? Mostly they are observed dressed to the nines, eating delicately prepared viands and enjoying life in either a Manhattan penthouse, where one prays the swimming pool does not spring a leak and ruin the library's first editions, or a riverside mansion, where the helicopter pad blends nicely into the landscape. There is no rage, pain or panic in any of these venues...
...prestige and officers on the line. Says "Amin," a member of the military wing: "We believe the meeting in Wye had just one goal: liquidating Hamas." In the past, Arafat has arrested Hamas men and then quietly released many through what the Israelis complained was a "revolving door." With the CIA watching, that door may finally stop spinning...
...York City. The store, open since June, is a gallery of chaste-but-playful pieces from the era. "We stock pieces from California designers like Greta Grossman that most people have never heard of, but who designed for the Case Study houses, and they've been flying out the door," he says. Even failures from the period are being revived. Telstar, a tiny start-up company in Milwaukee, Wis., is offering a reproduction of the Predicta TV set, which was a spectacular failure when it was first introduced in 1958. The updated model has '90s amenities, such as color...
...Dartboard are dismayed by the dangerous construction projects under way in the Square. Next door to Grendel's Den, an enormous crane is being used to relocate a historic building in the way of a new commercial development. The crane looms high above the horizon, threatening to topple at any moment, sending hundreds of pedestrians fleeing for their lives (and seriously disrupting the flow of traffic...
Beyond this high-grade sitcom, one of the appealing possibilities of The Alarmist is the voyeurism offered by the "door-to-door salesman" frame. Sadly, the possibility of venturing into the mansions of West Los Angeles and meeting the natives remains largely unexploited. While Tommy does go door-to-door, the characters he encounters are not archetypal Angelenos, but a stereotypically elderly market. A little closer to the mark and this movie would have many movie-industry types squirming in their seats, but The Alarmist is estranged from the hip alarm-buying populous of aging baby boomers. Gale...