Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desired end of this film was to argue for the presence of mystery in the modern world. Instead, the film demonstrates how modern man, and modern film, often chooses to answer real worldly and spiritual questions by taking a cowardly agnostic duck. To paraphrase the Good Lord, I'll take a hot movie or a cold movie anyday, but a lukewarm movie unsettles my popcorn...
...soaps are on TV. Why watch the news when you can see the hurricane with your own eyes?" Danger? "Who cares about flying roofs and airborne automobiles," said the student, clad in his finest hurricane garb: shorts, a t-shirt and Ray-Bans. "I've got eyes, I can duck." Nice shades...
...away the kiwis. Strike the pink peppercorns. Forget everything you were just beginning to like about vegetable pates and the grilled rare duck breast, magret de canard. The days of the nouvelle cuisine and its culinary trademarks are numbered. What the savviest chefs in France are cooking up now is being hailed as cuisine moderne, a blend of the classic and the nouvelle. Some observers prefer to call this new cooking actuelle (what is really being cooked today), while others describe it as libre (free), personnalisee (personalized) or, perhaps most appropriately, courante (trendy...
...Reagan launched his much heralded "fall offensive" to reform the tax code, he was faced with the hardest political test of his presidency: how, as an incipient lame duck, to translate his immense personal popularity into congressional support for his policies. Where legislators once feared his power to go over their heads to the voters, many have now grown restive and defiant...
...University of California, Berkeley, has added to the mystery. His expedition, sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey, uncovered a cache of 180 dinosaur bones in Alaska, several hundred miles farther north than the creatures had previously been found. Among the fossils are skeletal remains of hadrosaurs, plant-eating duck-billed dinosaurs that stood up to 15 ft. high, and the teeth of a Tyrannosaurus-type carnivore...