Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baby It's You is also a love story, but this time the music is midsixties R&B and the characters are straight. Two high school seniors become briefly--and inexplicably--involved. They break up, get back together, drift apart, get back together, graduate from high school, drift back together, break up for good, but get back together one last time as the film's credits roll, ever so slowly. We enjoy the film because Sayles has hired an attractive cast, and because coming-of-age movies, though a dime a dozen these days, evoke that special nostalgic' something...
Crepuscular clouds drift lazily across a Crayola orange sky. To the right, a mauve villa, ornamented by a dazzling splash of tropical trees; to the left, an azure pool, inviting in look but impossible in perspective. Four couples, paired in matching pinks, yellows, lilacs and greens, disport themselves playfully while the estate's elegant mistress lounges provocatively on a poolside chaise. Suddenly a stranger springs into this daydreamer's view of a motley Mediterranean paradise: a macho greaser in shades, tight white pants and black silk shirt. The woman rises and sniffs the wind. This is Italy...
...addition to the mayoral debacle, the machine lost control of seven seats on the 50-member city council. Washington predicted that the organization would now "drift off into the woods and die." Yet the machine has shown remarkable resilience in the past, rising from defeat to wheel and deal again. Washington has only 20 sure supporters on the powerful city council, six short of a working majority. "He will probably have to cut a deal with at least part of the organization," says Rakove...
That economic strengthening, in turn, has helped convince a number of politicians and businessmen that Volcker deserves renomination. Inflation, for example, continues its downward drift. In March, producer prices fell .1%, while industrial production rose for the third straight month. Unemployment is holding high at above 10%, but it is down from the 10.8% peak in December. Last week the Commerce Department reported that retail sales posted a .3% rise in March, the first increase since November. Detroit's carmakers are expected to report total first-quarter profits of $930 million, vs. losses of $77 million during the same...
...established itself as a moderate faction between the Conservative and Labour extremes, maintaining liberal positions on domestic and foreign affairs and walking the thin line between Labour's increased spending for jobs and the Conservatives' tax cutting. It could gain even more ground if Labour continues its drift toward the far left and if the increasingly unpopular Foot remains at his party's helm...