Word: grates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visa registration office. Later, while the Siberians exchanged hugs and kisses with family members through the heavy metal grate covering an embassy basement window, a young agent in a black leather jacket perched on a nearby railing, taking pictures of them. Said a U.S. diplomat: "They have a hunting license to go anywhere in the system...
Although Hemingway's whiny voice begins to grate after about 10 minutes, she plays Chris with the awkward natural charm of an ingenue. Donnelly, who ran for the 1976 Olympic team, shines as the insecure, driven Tory. And Scott Glenn does equally well as their hard-assed coach who drams of leading a male team with which he wouldn't have to worry about "Lynn Swann getting pregnant or Rocky Bleier forgetting his tampax." It's only unfortunate that Towne didn't leave just this kind of chauvinist mentality in his fictitous locker room, rather letting it lead...
...which the world can and should work. So when he arrived in Washington, full clear hopes and plans for restoring "fiscal control", his frustration was inevitable. A capacity for frustrated idealism rarely lead, to lasting success in Washington. But there is a double sense in which we should be grate ful that Stockman had that capacity. For one thing, idealistic public officials appear infrequently enough to learn our respect regardless of their political viewpoint. But more importantly, Stockman's frustration contributed to his candor; in his case disillusionment was like a truth serum. And that candor, as Senator Robert Dole...
...movie contains much that appeals, but its foolishness of technique and mistiness of sentiment grate on the nerves. The plot, concerning two British runners whose dogged loyalty to principle makes them heroes of the 1924 Olympics, lends itself to pathetic romanticization. To make matters worse, the cinematography and direction seem intent on emphasizing rather than minimizing this cornball emotionalism...
...there is an attraction to homosexuality--most who share in it would call it perverse, while admitting to it nonetheless--the thought of what the other way must feel like, the curious reviling of the opposite sex and almost narcissistic indulgence in the flesh of your own: it can grate on libidos and unhinge nagging emotions of doubt and longing. Straight is cool, of course, but the other path has yet to be explored...