Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Morris Louis does not come out of this show looking like a great painter. What is left? A perfume; a visual buzz unlike any other -- and the persistent impression of small pictorial ideas writ large. But for what it is, the work can still offer intense pleasure to the eye while inadvertently reminding you that beauty, in art, is not enough...
...Meet -- as if you hadn't met them in Southern literature a hundred times before -- the irrepressible outcast (Rosanna Arquette), the sensitive wanderer (Eric Roberts) in search of Miz Right, the good-ole-girl barmaid (Mare Winningham), the ex-jock with itchy trousers (Jim Youngs). In her eye blink of a role, Winningham is a buoyant delight, and Youngs nicely fleshes out his cardboard stud, but everyone else goes under in a sea of mannerisms. Arquette brings a clangorous winsomeness to the sort of cracked-belle character that the young Katharine Hepburn portrayed so majestically in Morning Glory and Alice...
...they take their leave of Capitol Hill, they cast a fond eye at the past and discern troublesome aspects of the present.The three Senators seem to mourn the loss of the gentlemanly quality of the old days. They are disturbed by the all-importance of money in the political process and dismayed by the impatience of their younger colleagues. Each is proud, somewhat battered but unbowed. In their faces and in their careers is writ the recent history of the nation...
Long was short on ideology; he was a dealmaker, not a thinker. In closed- door negotiating sessions, Long would look a recalcitrant Senator in the eye and say, "What do you want?" If he could, he would provide it. When Long's hard bargaining aroused tension, he relieved it with a backwoods tale. He was ever ready to repay favors done for him, and many Senators who did not care for his politics loved...
Waite's mission was a secret until he called the Beirut office of the Associated Press on Friday to tell a reporter that negotiations "appear to be moving." Then he added cryptically, " You keep an eye, just keep an eye." Waite left Beirut late Friday by U.S. helicopter for Cyprus. Dozens of reporters quickly set up watch at the Larnaca airport on the island, and in the absence of any hard information, rumors about a hostage deal began sweeping through the Middle East. Seven thousand miles away, campaigning for Republican candidates in Washington State and aware of the possibility...