Word: imperfectly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movies for summer '84 is Walter Hill's Streets of Fire, with a title rerouted from Bruce Springsteen, a score featuring songs by the Blasters and Tom Petty, and some costumes designed by Giorgio Armani, all helping to spin out a hellish story set in the future imperfect. Even sooner, viewers can sample a fine, tough, sexy new movie called Reckless, with tunes by Romeo Void and Bob Seeger; a fake documentary called This Is Spinal Tap, directed by Rob Reiner, which chronicles with legitimate hilarity the American tour of the world's loudest and stupidest heavy...
...many years, Israel said that the Palestinians could not have peace and final settlement unless they recognized Israel, that is, unless they accepted the legality of the state created by the partition of Palestine. This is equally true of Israel itself... In the here and now, in this imperfect realm of, at best, rough human justice, Israel was given a charter to part of the land, and it rightly demands that it be allowed to live there in safety. Israel's moral strength, and the possibility of its finally achieving peace, rest inevitably on its recommitment to the basic bargain...
Using her powers. Ten Dorp (Jodie Barrett) predicts the play's murders, but her warnings are ignored because she has a slightly imperfect gift. (She predicts the arrival of Anderson's typewriter as a small Black man named Smith Corolla.) Barrett's broad campish delivery relieves the tension of some of the murders. Delivering the play's best exit line, she exclaims. "Ach, my daughter, she is pregnant, after all those years of trying she has finally made me a grandmother. I must go tell...
Reich: There is not a perfect match between private sector decision making, what's good for the shareholders, and what is good for the country. If you acknowledge that there is an imperfect match, then you're back at the first questions we raised: can you fix it, and should you try, and what are the negative side effects of trying...
...irreverence is still there, though the flipness and the elaborate convolutions of the early "TIME style" are long gone. As for American and Western values, TIME very consciously maintains its faith in them. We believe in freedom, including freedom of conscience and enterprise; in democracy, however imperfect; in a strong and beneficial American role in the world, however difficult...