Word: gorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...King Arthur and his knights achieved in that film, Rewriting the Gospels (Life of Brian) offered promise, but on film even the madcap Pythoneers seemed to hold themselves back under the weight of their own irreverence. Modeled after a Lewis Carroll poem. Jabberwocky deteriorated into nerve-deadening blood and gore. A romp through time and space with a seven-year-old (Time Bandits) fell into the saddest trap of all--it was cute. And a couple of truly limp filmings of live shows made even the most adoring followers doubt any future theme movie could recapture that early perfect match...
Peter Thompson's unobtrusive direction of the less than 90-minute piece highlights its main theme--how a man must deal with being singled out for life amidst death, glory amidst gore. Jackson is intelligent and decently raised, his inner conflict, that of a just man in a wretchedly amoral situation, eventually leads him to madness. The irony of President Johnson rewarding gross carnage is compounded by Jackson's fear that to return his medal would make him just another unemployed Black American. For him, the medal of honor, in one sense a key to opportunity, only locks him into...
...going into 1982. We didn't know where to cut-to stop collecting garbage or what. In the first nine months of 1982 Sheffield got $600,000 from liquor." Johnson reported this calculus over a Manhattan at the Holiday Inn. The manager of that inn, Bob Gore, said his lounge is taking in $90,000 a month and, since liquor became legal, he has booked conventions through 1989, nearly all of them thirsty gatherings that never convene in a dry county and thus have never met here. "Without the lounge we would show a small profit," said Gore...
...glossy pages) and diverse. To accompany an entire short novel by Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, the magazine bought rights to a dozen new paintings and drawings from celebrated fellow Colombian Fernando Botero. There are lively, offbeat articles: Gore Vidal reporting from the Gobi Desert, Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould speculating on why .400 hitters have disappeared from baseball. More predictably in a culture magazine, there are discerning reviews by Novelist Robert Stone of Joan Didion's Latin American reportage in her book Salvador, and by Staff Editor Walter demons...
...possible retirement sent a quiver through ambitious Republicans. Among those mentioned to succeed Baker as G.O.P. Senate leader in 1985: Dole, Lugar, Pete Domenici (New Mexico) and Senate Whip Ted Stevens (Alaska). In Tennessee the most likely contenders for Baker's Senate seat are Congressman Albert Gore Jr. and Governor Alexander...