Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sharp crack of the pepper shaker, like a chess master toppling the king. The visitor went down. White grains of salt spilled out of the holes in the top of his head, and he expired on the flat white linen. The expanse of tablecloth had become for an instant dangerous, in a surreal way. The American had been run down by a pepper shaker from the Pleistocene in a restaurant named for the paramount white colonial of British East Africa, Lord Delamere...
...Kenya are crumbling. They look as if a large tar-eating animal had been chewing at them from the shoulders, inward toward the center line. A vehicle therefore speeds demonically down the dead center of a two-lane road, like a rhino charging. The driver waits until the last instant to flick the steering wheel to the left (British rules, drive on the left -- Did Moses derive the left-handed theory from that?) to swerve around the onrushing bus. The wildest animal on the road is the matatu, a jitney designed to carry about eight passengers. Instead, it customarily holds...
Constance Chatterley in love -- the quintessence of romantic adventure in which two people meet, lock eyes, feel an instant thrill of attraction and soon fall into passionate sex. Lady C.'s erotic enthusiasm caused D.H. Lawrence's novel to be banned as obscene not so long ago; the book was finally cleared in the U.S. in 1959. By then it could take its place on shelves crowded with explicit fiction that celebrated the new ideal of sexual behavior it had helped to inspire. Freedom, spontaneity, pleasure without guilt became the bywords of the liberated '60s and '70s, as many...
...were not so eerily accurate and his imagery were not so much a part of today's politics. He has been barbering Presidents and Washington power brokers for more than 20 years, and is serious when he says that in this electronic environment, a person's hair becomes an instant signal of his purpose and personality. He wrote Ted Kennedy out of contention long before anyone else after seeing a shot of the Senator's wild locks. "He'll never make it with a haircut like that," said Milt...
...CAST is superb, bouncing through the material with energy and humor. Laura Kenyon is convincingly haggard as the aging Kay Goodman, and she is beautifully counterbalanced by Krista Neuman as the ingenue Dorothy Flynn, who goes from boring broad to blond bombshell the instant she takes off her rhinestone glasses with pointy rims. Of course. And in the lead role of Buck, Scott Bakula chews on the endless cliches with a masculine earnestness that brings to mind Montgomery Clift, Victor Mature, and that prime-rib of cynical beefcake, William Holden...