Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That isn't what I play football for," the senior center says, "I play football to win games. There's nothing like winning a football game...
Despite the Crimson's success this year. Carton, unlike many lifetime football players, isn't jumping up and down talking about coming to play, working together as a team and using a lot of other meaningless cliches...
...consider the elbowing at the most elaborate California dinner parties. "People consider it chic to arrive late," says Wallis Annenberg, stepdaughter of the celebrated curtsier. "This is the land of the grand entrance, and God forbid that the audience isn't assembled when one arrives." In a variant ploy, the guest arrives on time but then immediately asks to use the telephone for "an urgent business conference" and disappears for an hour...
...these difficult days, when the biggest fear the audience has is of somebody pressing a button and blowing the world away, I think people want a little fantasy," Goldberg says. "They want to escape. They want to look at beautiful women, especially when the rest of the world isn't so beautiful to look...
...This isn't a 1940s movie," Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) cries in one of the less deadly moments of frustration he suffers in The Killing Fields. One has to admire the honesty of a film that includes among its other acuities an intelligent capsule review of itself. For in recounting the tormented friendship of Schanberg, the New York Times correspondent who won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for his accounts of the fall of Cambodia, and his native assistant, Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor), the film does sacrifice the narrative coherence and the heroically moral resolutions old movies imposed...