Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entire plot must be exposition pocked with explosions of violence. Parker, an itchy director (Midnight Express, Fame) with a bang-on sense of textbook timing, occasionally tries to pump up his flashback talkathon with chase scenes that distract from the film's mood. But he has located a chic, grim style for the story. Garish, ominous colors flash vividly across his monochrome palette. The streets keep sweating rain, and clouds loom over the bayou like threats written in cigar smoke. Images of mirrors, feet, overhead fans, unknown soldiers and shrouded figures punctuate Harry's waking dreams, inching him closer...
...WOULD be paranoid to blame it all on some enormous plot, masterminded by the Master of Amnesia himself--but let's not name names, the President has been getting enough abuse lately. But the grim fact of the matter is that blame for the short attention span of the American public must be laid on the baby boomers...
...population at large; Hispanics in the U.S., for example, should increase at a rate of 3% a year until the end of this century. Even allowing for that, the U.S. fertility rate, now 1.8 children per woman, is expected to remain below the "replacement rate" of 2.1. One grim projection: by 2014, deaths will exceed births...
Before presidential politics gets too grim, let's have the Milt Pitts tonsorial tout...
Sugrue broke the record, originally held by Jackie Grim at 5-ft., 6-in., in December of 1985, in her first indoor season...