Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other words, he has tried to cram too much onto the screen in too little time. Perhaps if he had focused tightly on the team's inner dynamics, seen the unfolding tragedy entirely through the players' eyes and kept everyone else at a distance, he might have done better. But outsiders, ranging from ) sportswriters like Ring Lardner (played by Sayles himself) to Supergambler Arnold Rothstein, are present and superficially accounted for. They take screen time away from the team, where the only ones who lay full claim to our attention are the great but aging pitcher Eddie Cicotte (David Strathairn...
...wait argue that a launch now would only push Arab countries into beseeching Moscow for satellites of their own, thus fueling the region's arms race and irritating the Soviet Union at a time when Jerusalem is trying to improve relations with Moscow. The ten members of Israel's inner Cabinet are expected to make a decision within the next few weeks. Another consideration: some Israeli politicians fear that if a satellite is launched before the country's November elections, the public will consider the move a cynical ploy to win votes...
...bill for new china. She performed an image transplant by getting the designer-obsessed First Lady to sing Second Hand Rose at the 1982 Gridiron dinner and to embark on her "Just Say No" antidrug campaign. Tate, 46, is the first woman to pierce Bush's all- male inner circle...
...might seem worthwhile if we were convinced that Adam learned something from his San Francisco experience. He begins to write letters to his mother and Suzanne--all he needs is a little detachment for him to deal with his problems--and it is here that we see what his inner feelings are about his encounters with the eccentricities of the city. He thinks a lot about paternity, sexuality and his career and somehow he does seem to become closer to his former enemies. But we are really left wondering if he makes any major life decisions...
Just when these events have wrung the utmost sympathy and admiration for the Hallams from the reader, Barnard shakes the kaleidoscope: in a tour de force passage of inner monologue, the visiting girl re-examines some seemingly unimportant events to expose how the family's pieties about mankind have masked a cruel indifference to individual people. The field of potential suspects thereby doubles to include the noble clan. More important, what happened on a moonlit lawn, and why, becomes less a puzzle and more a metaphor for a social system on the brink of change. Throughout, Barnard's narrative never...