Word: kurtz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novice feature-film director. Top Cinematographer Ed Lachman (Union City, Desperately Seeking Susan) has shot the film with the shadowless clarity of postcards and Polaroids. The Narrator's convertible streaks down the highway like a big red Road Runner, and the Laziest Woman in the World (Swoosie Kurtz) vegetates in a tidy mansion surrounded by the bleak glamour of the Texas plains -- civilization's affront to parched nature. Byrne's framing of the actors, like his sense of humor, is just off center and right on target. It gives all the performers (especially Goodman, who becomes tomorrow's star with...
...boldly tragicomic plot. At the center is a lovers' triangle: a zookeeper and would-be songwriter, played with ingratiating and ultimately terrifying optimism by John Mahoney; his mistress, pneumatically impersonated by Stockard Channing; and his eerily manic-depressive wife, evoked with simultaneous goofiness and dignity by Swoosie Kurtz in what may be the best performance of the season. Kurtz barks and mewls like a dog, she wanders vacant-eyed like Mary Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night, she throws things and lapses into catatonia, all the while comprehending everything that goes on except how to avoid being packed...
...MUCH AS it is a story of greed and political perversion, Citizen Hughes is also the story of an American-style Mr. Kurtz, of whom Joseph Conrad said, "Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing was to know what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their...
Less an orphanage than a prison the Sacred Heart likely doesn't use Dr. Spock as a consultant. Piper won't eat his food, will he? Forget what Dr. Joyce Brothers and Donahue say, and get ever-resourceful disciplinarian Mr. Kurtz (Murphy Dunne). Wielding a Duracell-powered cattle-prod, Dunne drives the kids into the meditation room, a meat freezer with carcasses as wall décor. There, Piper meets his fellow prisoners: Mouse (Michael Hentz), Whitey (Joey Coleman), Blackie (Christopher Brown,) and Joey (Pamela Segall...
...applications. The first widely accepted one, FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation), was developed in 1956 by a team at IBM. It is used primarily on scientific and mathematical problems. BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), which was written by Dartmouth Professors John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, is well suited for relatively simple personal-computer programs. It is widely taught in high schools and colleges, and even in some elementary schools, because it is easy to learn and use. More difficult to master, but more precise, is Pascal, named for the 17th century French mathematician. The language...