Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Julie Peters playing his wife, as patient as Penelope. Director Ron Howard (Splash, Cocoon) gets the social politics of the dwarfs' village right, but he is not adept at action scenes: some are too busy; others are botched. Kilmer tries hard in a role that might have fit Mel Gibson like an iron glove, and Whalley, teen angel of the serious British mini-series (The Edge of Darkness, The Singing Detective) is wasted as the heroine. Both Kilmer and Whalley, in fact, are curiously irrelevant to the climactic battle. But then, Willow is a Star Wars without star quality...
...Boyer oversimplifies. Many of the changes at CBS News would have occurred with or without Sauter; nor have all of them been bad. (They have certainly not been unique to CBS.) Boyer is on the shakiest ground in his final chapter, in which he tries to fit the events of the past year -- when CBS News' fortunes have improved -- into his anti-Sauter thesis. His assertion that Rather's newscast has degenerated into a "broad-reaching video tabloid" seems particularly unfounded...
...seminars, which are taught by members of the houses' Senior Common Rooms, officially are part of the General Education Department, the Core Curriculum's predecessor, which offers courses that do not fit into the guidelines of any one department...
...freckles are utterly disarming. She enhances their effect by wearing her hair in a girlish bob. Her round brown eyes seem to be perpetually widened in astonishment at the inventiveness that people lavish on wicked enterprises. In short, Ryoko Itakura (Nobuko Miyamoto) does not fit anyone's image of a tax collector. But in her case, appearances are usefully deceptive. They camouflage a spirit demonically dedicated to exposing the cheating heart of the all-too-typical taxpayer...
...would draw viewers into departments of feeling where standard pictures would never take them. To the unprepared, and even sometimes to the well prepared, there are Winogrands that indeed look haphazard and slight -- dedicated studies of unyielding scenes. But for every one that mumbles, there are a dozen that fit together a bracing new kind of declaration. His pictures have their own kind of muscle and spine, enough to push out the boundaries of art. And, for that matter, to lift the spirit...