Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Temperatures in Paris dropped to 10 degrees. At midweek a 5 1/2-inch snowfall turned the French capital into a winter fantasy land where students waged impromptu snowball fights and cross-country skiers trekked across the Champs de Mars near the Eiffel Tower. Following the lead of President Francois Mitterrand, who deployed army troops to stricken areas across the country, French Premier Jacques Chirac mobilized some 1,800 soldiers to help remove the snow from Paris streets. The government ordered two Paris Metro stations to stay open all night to help shelter an estimated 15,000 homeless men and women...
Eyes on the Prize is indispensable not just for its lucid treatment of the milestones of the era but for its keen eye on less noted events. A tense encounter between a band of demonstrators and a deputy sheriff on the streets of Selma, for example, turns into an impromptu "debate" between people from different planets: "Do you believe in equal justice?" "I don't believe in equal nothin'!" The narration by Julian Bond is admirably restrained, and - those interviewed (from such movement leaders as John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael to old foes like Alabama Sheriff Jim Clark) look back...
...minutes, Sakharov patiently fielded questions on the chilly platform. Remarkably, few police officers were in evidence. Usually, any public appearance by a Soviet dissident is well attended by uniformed and plainclothes police, who try to intimidate journalists and passersby. This time no attempt was made to disrupt the impromptu news conference. Nor was there any police stakeout at the couple's tiny seventh-floor apartment on Chkalova Street...
...good friend and hygiene guru Rutger Fury had taken part in an impromptu interfaith cooperative hijacking, being as we were in need of a quick ride to Teheran. We figured that Iran would be the best place from which to cover the evolving arms scandal...
...show that money isn't everything and, as Joanne makes quite clear, marriage isn't sacred. Tornell's portrayal is sharp and consistent throughout; she perfectly fills out the stereotype of the callous NYC socialite. Filling out the duo, Lyne makes the most of a sketchy character with clever, impromptu gestures...