Word: hocus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This proclivity towards the effusive is Wilson's biggest problem and it culminates in an illconceived and startling ending. The ghosts which haunt the past of the characters in The Piano Lesson literally come to life in a hocus-pocus scene which is badly out of step with the simple poetry of the production. Wilson seems to believe so fiercely in the powers of imagination that he is ultimately trapped by them. He's a visionary, poetic playwright and at times his vision seems to over-whelm...
...civil status mattered in a heatwave." Remarks like that, the hallmark of Francoise Sagan's simple, wayward charm, occur often enough to make this slight tale worth a couple of summer hours. Maybe it should be read at night, out of doors with a flashlight, because it is essentially hocus-pocus about oversexed Resistance workers in the early days of the German Occupation. Alice and Jerome, both bright, attractive and world weary, have a glum affair going. Seeking a hideout for their efforts to help Jews, they descend on his friend Charles, who lives in a quiet town. Of course...
Using half-a-dozen basis sets and their infinite variations, the Restic offense changes every week depending on the opponent-that's the multiplicity-and makes use of such hocus-pocus as backs and ends in motion before the snap-that's the flexibility...
...Rather than seeking any sort of sales tax, which hits poorer people relatively harder than the well-to-do, he would probably rely partly on higher income tax rates. How much higher? Reagan's estimate of $1,500, Mondale said, "is haywire and completely off. He has some hocus-pocus numbers there." In fact, until Mondale explains exactly where he would cut programs and raise taxes, the average family's prospective share is uncertain. However, a $1,500-per-household increase would by itself slash the 1984 deficit by $125 billion, or two-thirds...
...feature, THX 1138 (1971), a chilling look at a futuristic world in which people live underground and numbers have replaced names. American Graffiti came next. Its success persuaded 20th Century-Fox to invest money in Lucas' strange script about chirping robots, Jedi knights and a form of hocus-pocus called the Force...