Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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High expectations aside, Smooth Talk is an enormously frustrating, painful movie to watch. Which is not to say that it is not ultimately likeable. Concerning itself with human flaws and the mistakes in judgment to which we've all fallen prey, we are tempted either to meld into the cellulose and stop the characters from acting as they do, or to walk out of the theatre in order to avoid bearing witness to such fatalistically dumb behavior. In summary, this is a movie that hits home very hard...
...fallen behind St. John's and Penn at halftime earlier in the season...
Speaking on the question, "Why is self-denial unpopular today?" Dr. Joseph Ton last night told an audience of 100 in the Science Center that "society has fallen prey to the deception that independence is the way to self-fulfillment...
...freight trains are diesel powered; at Norfolk Southern Corp., in Norfolk, Va., for example, executives expect that saving from the decrease in diesel prices will be substantial. The bad news for Norfolk Southern is that some 35% to 40% of its freight is coal, and as oil prices have fallen, the volume of domestic coal traffic has begun to head downward...
Early action reports from the Gulf of Sidra claimed that half a dozen of Libya's Soviet-made SA-5 missiles had fallen harmlessly into the sea, while the Navy's harm missiles had knocked out a radar station on land. Yet the Libyans were able to replace their radar within a few hours, and there remained some uncertainty whether all four harm (cost: $283,000 each) had actually struck home...