Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Janis Joplin clone rock star of the '60s, this movie will still rake in the big dough. Why? Because despite some wooden acting by the supporting cast, The Rose has got lots of "sex, drugs and rock and roll." It also has Midler, who, despite the movie's flat finish, is phenomenal in her Hollywood debut...
Other performers in the show, too, seem like those good, dependable singers who know their art but whose voices go a little flat on the high notes. Alison Carey's Gwen--the youngest Cavendish, who's torn between love and the stage--gives a fine performance except when called upon, in the ineptly-written love scenes or her own renunciation of a stage career, to display excesses of emotion. Rounding out the clan, Michael Cantor's Anthony--the rake of the family, who sold out to Hollywood--hams his way through his part with plenty of panache but without some...
...before Thatcher made that public statement, an official of the Cabinet Office discreetly warned Blunt of the impending disclosures and the erstwhile curator immediately vanished from his London flat. "The situation is quite scandalous," declared Labor M.P. James Wellbeloved. The Prime Minister's spokesman replied that the warning was a "common courtesy" and denied that Blunt was a fugitive from justice. Though the Queen stripped him of his knighthood last week, he apparently will incur no other punishment. Reflecting widespread public indignation over the incident, the Guardian charged that the cover-up by successive governments was "a totally abject...
...years the autumn landscape in the fertile Red River valley of North Dakota and Minnesota was unchanging: acres of wheat extended to a flat skyline broken only by the lonely silhouettes of grain elevators. Now the amber waves are interrupted by broad patches of dark brown, and the horizon is punctuated by tall processing towers. These are signs of the region's hot new cash crop, which is also becoming an important export: the sunflower...
...must have thought as their Broncos' cheerleaders, the Pony Express, skittered onto the field in glittering t & a (for team spirit and ardent rah-rah-ing) costumes of halters, miniskirts, gloves and white vinyl boots. But wait. That cheerperson in the middle, wasn't she a little flat of chest and hairy of hide? No wonder. It was TV's Robin Williams (Mork & Mindy) filming for an upcoming sequence, Hold that Mork! So it was all a drag? Not for the Broncos, who beat the New England Patriots...