Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since 1982, when the Dispute with Dope really got cooking, there has been little reduction in the amount of narcotics coursing through the veins of the nation. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) survey of 1990, drug abuse rates were essentially flat, war or no war. Among 18-25 year-olds, marijuana use declined only slightly, from 27% to 22%. Cocaine was up a tad, reaching 8% from its starting point at 7%. And hallucinogens remain at a static...
...week. His Tuesday-night debut was the sort of disaster TV fans will recall for their grandchildren. Nervous and totally at sea, Chase tried everything, succeeded at nothing. He shot basketballs from the stage, fawned embarrassingly over guests (Goldie Hawn and Whoopi Goldberg), took pratfalls that fell flat and, in one desperate moment, boogalooed in the middle of the stage, pleading with the apathetic crowd, "Everybody, shake it!" He recycled old material shamelessly, not just from Saturday Night Live (caught in the midst of a phone call at the start of his nightly News Update) but even from The Groove...
...nightmare of relentless inflation and widespread shortages. Dapo, a 33-year-old journalist, lost his job several months ago and cannot find a new one. The fees at his four-year-old son's religious school have risen from $23 to $114. The rent on the family's modest flat in Lagos has doubled to $36.50 a month. A bag of cassava flour that sold for $13.60 when the couple married in 1988 now goes for $50 or more. "Five years ago, I thought that by now we would have a fine home and two cars," says Dapo...
...inspired passage. Allen and Marshall Brickman, the co-writer who worked with him so brilliantly in the past (Annie Hall, Manhattan), have concocted a steady stream of badinage that buoys the whole movie along. But these exchanges evaporate, and the movie is surprisingly flat visually. There comes a moment when you realize how wrong just being funny is for Allen. Ambition is an essential goad to his sensibility. It pushes him toward the rueful resonances of those previous Brickman collaborations and toward the magical transformations of reality in The Purple Rose of Cairo and Radio Days...
Perlman's reading became touching as he seemed to approach it less formally than he had the first movement. His playing was marred only by a quickly corrected tendency to sound flat on his longer notes that was probably a result of the changing temperature...