Word: flat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coming Cuban Americans). He is impressed by their energy, ambition and sense of humor. Among the local jokes is this one about the marielitos, jailbirds and misfits that Fidel Castro unloaded on the U.S. in | 1980: "A marielito is driving along on Interstate 95 when he gets a flat tire. He pulls over and starts to change it. A second marielito stops behind him, gets out, and asks: 'What's up? Need any help?' The first guy starts to explain about the tire, but the second guy cuts him off. 'No, you get the tire,' he says...
...over-sized OMNIMAX screen--76 feet in diameter and tilted at a 30 degree angle to the horizon--Chronos practically surrounds you. Furthermore, the curvature of the screen warps your perception of the world. Shots of a canyon floor from a high mountain peak are somewhat dizzying and flat deserts appear curved and other-worldly...
...views on privacy and other libertarian ideals soon changed radically, - when Bork realized that his ideological outlook had taken another turn. After a year's sabbatical in England with his family, he returned to Yale in 1969 to find that his once lively seminar with Bickel had "gone flat." Recalls Bork: "When I asked him why, Bickel explained, 'It's because you're not saying those crazy things anymore.' I suddenly realized I'd basically adopted his position." He abandoned his belief that constitutional law could be made to conform to rigid ideological or economic principles. "I gave up trying...
...boys could use it as their fathers had used copies of The Prophet: to impress girls with their sensitivity. Here, liberated by parody, he remints visual cliches, like the gloriously fake matte paintings of fairy-tale realms, and they are funny- lovely. As for the Princess Bride, she is flat-out lovely. Wright's grave blond beauty makes her the wedding-cake figure around which all the movie's clowns cavort. As you watch this enchanting fantasy, feel free to be thrilled or to giggle, as you wish. This time, Happily Ever After lasts 98 minutes...
Hart began his rehabilitation road show the next evening in Philadelphia with a densely analytical address on U.S.-Soviet relations. Although the liberal audience was politely receptive, his delivery was flat, and his dovish themes echoed recent Democratic debates...