Word: kramer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They think they own the place," said Beardsley. "They do." Employees still park in the lot, but cautiously wait in the lobby if there are moose around. Ray Kramer, a biologist for the state game service, has advised fellow Alaskans who encounter a hungry, charging moose to head for the nearest snowbank, cover up and pray...
...perhaps predictable. Ever since he finished Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979, Hoffman had been looking for a script that would permit him to explore the questions "What makes someone a man? What makes someone a woman?" He batted the theme around with a friend, Playwright Murray Schisgal. By the time he and Pollack (who followed Dick Richards and Hal Ashby as director) joined forces, he had acquired not only various draft scripts but a ferocious proprietary interest in the film. Says Hoffman: "The great scripts don't drop out of the sky; you have to invent them...
...deplore the injustice art fashion did to Avery without, however, going to the opposite extreme of making him into a Yankee Matisse, a painter (in the recent words of Critic Hilton Kramer) comparable to late Turner and late Cézanne, displaying "the kind of archetypal grandeur and sweep that is to be found only among the masterworks of modern art." Of Avery's power as a colorist, there is no reasonable doubt. The only way not to feel it in the Whitney is to wear sunglasses. But Avery as draftsman? The color weaves a seamless fabric of pleasure...
...Kramer vs. Kramer...
...Colorado is stunningly scenic, generally prosperous and traditionally Republican: the Fifth District has never sent a Democrat to the House. The apparent hopelessness of Democratic Challenger Tom Cronin's cause seemed underscored last week when Republicans leaked a poll from July showing that two-term Incumbent Congressman Ken Kramer was ahead by a margin of better than...