Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...England storms go, that is by no means an excessive amount; in fact, a blizzard that roared across the Northeast later in the week, paralyzing much of the Atlantic seaboard, dumped up to 16 in. on Hartford's rooftops. What is more, the flat, "space frame" roof, which was supported at its corners by four concrete pylons, was, supposedly designed to be strong enough to withstand far greater pressure. Said Hartford's embittered mayor, George Athanson: "I don't think it was a natural disaster. I think there was something wrong with how it was constructed...
Beckett could share Krim's concern about flat share values. Despite its unimpressive performance on the stock exchanges, Transamerica also had an impressive 1977: its revenues increased from $2.7 billion in 1976 to more than $3 billion, while profits rocketed upward by 46%, to $169 million. (United Artists contributed about 15% of both Transamerica's revenues and its earnings...
...years the Cowboys appeared to have as much personality as a flat Texas landscape. Too computerized, too efficient, too heartless. Their presence on the football field was as chilling as a ranch-house visit from a cold-eyed Dallas banker holding an overdue mortgage. But just as the years tamed the ostentation of Dallas wealth, so has success slowly transformed the Cowboy image. The coldness has become cool professionalism, with a soupgon of eccentricity. The Cowboys have become the glamour team of pro football, home to the dazzling rookie with the accent on the second syllable, Dorsett...
...show some sensitivity. But, of course, there is more to being human than that, and the interrelated short sto ries of the book had about them the air of artless anecdote. They were tales that might have been funny if you'd been there, but that turned flat and ugly in the retelling...
...rest are sadists, masochists, sneaks, morons, arrested adolescents, vile companions for a two-hour journey. Aldrich has shot them all in a harsh, flat light that matches his essentially pornographic spirit, and he has directed without nu ance, jerking the movie to fitful life with occasional shocks - a beating here, a mur der there, over in the corner some sick...