Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is it that Ted Kennedy does not know or cannot challenge in the voluminous three-year Carter record? The handling of the hostages in Iran, perhaps, but that is now truly a lesser issue on the political horizon. Carter has compiled this year a 75-page State of the Union report, a 636-page budget, an economic message that runs 329 ghastly pages. Each week Carter talks to hordes of visitors on the record, gives dinner toasts and speeches in the Rose Garden, lets visiting editors interview him. His words and ideas and moods, his presence, flood the wires...
Another problem: there is no long-range planning. A Congressman has a two-year horizon, the U.S. President four. You put a head man in a company for only four years, and he won't do anything. He's only interested in having good results for those four years. He'll entertain no research, no development programs that won't pay off for eight or ten years. All top executives ought to be fairly young when they are elected, to be given a shot at really doing something...
...order to explore the realm of the imagination. Yet however fascinating this theme might be to a director, it must be remembered that the "normal" characters in the film are the springboard into this mystical world. If such characters are one-dimensional, the audience is left with no horizon line against which to judge the increasingly strange happenings...