Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are no signs of a police presence anywhere near the building. It is the occupying union men who maintain tight security. Five burly railroad workers in their uniforms stand guard at the entrance. The inner door is chained and padlocked. Although the occupiers claim to have about 400 people inside, a first-hand head count put that number at closer to 100. In a solemn mood, the peasants and factory workers sit around chatting idly, reading newspapers, playing cards or chess. At night bedrolls and mattresses are laid out side by side on the floor...
...Executive committee of the Cabinet, a kind of super-Cabinet of three or four senior department heads that would meet regularly with him and top White House staff officials to discuss the whole range of policy decisions. But aides last week were talking of setting up not one inner Cabinet but three or four. One would concentrate on foreign and national-security policy, another on economic affairs, a third and possibly a fourth on related domestic concerns, such as welfare, education, health and other social policies...
...problem here is a familiar one: reverence for a literary source, a delicate novella by Tillie Olsen, has rendered its adapters dumbstruck. Trying to remain faithful to her realistic surfaces and unable-except through uninformative flashbacks-to reveal the inner workings of Eva's sensibility, the film makers have avoided anything that might be melodramatic or even openly emotional. All the suffering in Tell Me a Riddle is thus stoic, all triumphs without joy. Movement is glacial, dialogue wooden, characterizations blurred. One has a feeling that this project-brought to fruition without the financial support of the film industry...
...Taxi, Lou Grant, WKRP in Cincinnati (all by craftsmen who worked for, or had graduated from, MTM Enterprises). In Hill Street Blues (written for MTM by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll, and directed by Robert Butler), all is motion and commotion; for Hill Street is part of a nameless inner city, and the Blues are the men and women of the local police precinct. Each episode traces a day in the life of the precinct, as the Blues try to defuse street crime, play social worker at knife point, slip out of an octopus stranglehold of red tape, keep their...
...scribbles indignant notes in the margins. To the Government's claim that it can control its agents without court interference, Cucinotta quips, "Like Herbert Hoover?" (He means J. Edgar Hoover, the late FBI director.) He reads The Brethren, the book on the high court's inner workings...