Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, an image so raw and shocking, subsides at last into the ecology of memory where we also find thousands of other oddments from the time -- John John saluting at the funeral, Jack and Jackie on Cape Cod, who knows? -- bright shards that stimulate old feelings (ghost pangs, ghost tendernesses, wistfulness) but not thought really. The shocks turn into dreams. The memory of such pictures, flipped through like a disordered Rolodex, makes at last a cultural tapestry, an inventory of the kind that brothers and sisters and distant cousins may % rummage through at family reunions, except that...
FORGET the $2 million in honoraria for his trip to Japan. The easiest bucks that former President Ronald Reagan will earn in his commercial ex-presidency will be the royalties from Speaking My Mind, a compilation of old ghost-written speeches slapped together and marketed for $24.95 per copy...
...ghost-written speeches are equally easy to spot. The word "paradigm" looks impressive in the transcript of a speech, but sounded pretty silly when Reagan pronounced it "paradijem...
...ghost of Karl Marx was even unhappier than usual last week. In Moscow Alan Greenspan, guru of Republican capitalism and chairman of the Federal Reserve, tutored top Soviet officials in remedial economics. In Hungary the country's ruling party shed its Communist label. And in Caracas ranking socialist leaders of the First and Third Worlds -- President Francois Mitterrand of France, 72, on a tour of Latin America, and President Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela, 66 -- agreed on the virtues of the free market...
...sizzling sex scenes that ornament her recent movies. As a prim D.A. in The Big Easy, she gets lessons in precision ecstasy from handy Dennis Quaid. A Barkin heroine will tussle with any man on even terms, perhaps to the death. In Mary Lambert's gorgeous, complex ghost story Siesta, Barkin is already dead, but that cannot stop her from a convulsive rendezvous with the aerialist of her dreams. Or from looking sensational in a stop-light red dress and a body sculpted by daily workouts. These two films, though, were cult objects for cinephiles and discriminating voyeurs. It took...