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...people you may never meet. You will feel like an intruder unless you accept this film on its own stringent terms: as a home-movie reverie about people who are cordial but not awfully forthcoming. They were here long before you came; they will continue, at their own measured gait, long after you leave. Life is like that too --every human relationship demands inferences based on insufficient evidence--but movies rarely are. Which is why 1918 has the effect of a 91- minute convalescence from the electroshock therapy of current Hollywood filmmaking...
...Jeff Goldblum), a Los Angeles aerospace engineer who is so tired of his lot that he can't go to sleep. Something keeps him from closing his eyes. Is he hooked on banality? For its first 15 minutes, this movie certainly is. It falls in with Ed's somnolent gait, trudging through tapioca as Ed aimlessly drives to the airport after spying his wife making sex with her boss. By the time Ed nods over his steering wheel, you are getting very . . . sleepy...
...hair is thick and wavy; his rolling gait has just a hint of swagger. Since Ronald Reagan became President, his chest has actually grown broader by three inches, thanks to his lifting weights. Posing for a photograph out at his ranch, he looks rangy and hale, an ageless cowboy. On a podium with waving flags and floating balloons, he can mesmerize and uplift. But when he speaks extemporaneously, the effect can be more halting than inspirational. He has long been notorious for bungling facts. He often mangles syntax. Somehow, with a quip or a smile, he usually manages to fight...
...gray and drizzly afternoon, the opening festivities at the 103,000-seat capacity Lenin Stadium were as much a political display as an athletic one. To the rousing tunes of a huge military band, 8,000 Soviet athletes marched around the oval with the same stiff-legged gait as Soviet troops. There were no marchers from any of the other 29 countries participating in Moscow. A burst of color was provided by hundreds of brightly costumed folk dancers who fluttered across the field. After an exhibition of well-drilled gymnastics came the finale: 2,000 doves flew...
...various symptoms Andropov displayed during his last appearances in public in mid-August?trembling hands, uneven gait, difficulty in getting out of his chair?were caused by muscle weakness brought on by diabetes and the kidney problems. The stiffness that observers detected in the Soviet leader's left arm was due to the repeated use of that arm for dialysis...