Word: eruptive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...witticisms translate well into print, because he does not write rounded, formal speeches. The movie men in Speed-the-Plow, much like the thugs in American Buffalo (1975), the actors in A Life in the Theater (1977) and the singles-bar habitues of Sexual Perversity in Chicago, erupt naturalistically in fragments, in repetitions, in overlapping counterpoint of threats and expostulations and profuse four-letter words. Their conversation sounds authentic, yet is so idiosyncratic to its author that a couple of minutes suffice to identify it as his. This quicksilver gift of language, joined with an almost infinite slyness about...
...kind of Milagro airlift, to bring the good word to town. And a cowboy (James Gammon) with a forbidding face -- you figure him to be the Jack Palance villain from Shane -- may up and save your life. Nobody will get hurt, except in the pride. Finally, the village will erupt into an alfresco fiesta, and the bad cop (Christopher Walken) will smile conspiratorily on his way out of town...
...rotundas. They are equally--if not more--to blame as the Reagan Administration for our failure to pursue a coherent foreign policy in an area which was once so secure as to be called "America's backyard". Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama show the indecision and weakness that can erupt when the executive and legislative branches refuse to cooperate on foreign relations...
...Superdome. Listless Republican delegates have completed the preordained coronation of George Bush as their presidential nominee. Now comes the one moment of drama: the choice of a running mate. Bush strides to the rostrum to break the news. "I want Dole," he declares. Before the cheers can erupt, he quickly adds, "No, not you, Bob." Then Elizabeth Dole hugs her husband, moves happily to the stage -- and the Republicans break into their first spontaneous demonstration in a humdrum convention...
WORLD: Gorbachev faces a crucial test as ethnic clashes erupt in two republics...