Word: latently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hart himself ventured a pretty good explanation last week. "What I think I may have tapped," he said, "is a reservoir much vaster than anyone ever contemplated, [a reservoir of] that pent-up, latent need to reidentify with national purpose." Hart, a canny political tactician, has taken full advantage of the gusher. He knew the media, eager for a loner-strikes-it-rich drama, would devote columns of type and hours of television air time to him. "It's like riding the wave," says Kathy Bushkin, his press secretary. "There's not much we can do to direct...
Farrell's latent ambitions became a concrete project when he discovered Milton Cablesystem's community center. The center provides video equipment for non-profit productions. Ordinarily, the cable station focuses on local issues, filming such events as football games, debates, or talk shows. Very few movies appear on the station, and those that do usually last 90 minutes or less. How then was Farrell able to use the center to make a two-hour movie? According to Farrell. "We were in the right place at the right time...
...1960s, Lebanon was prosperous, relatively peaceful, more or less democratic, a relaxed oasis of tolerance for the Islamic world. Beneath its patina of tranquillity, however, stirred future troubles: a bewildering mixture of sectarian communities that had fought one another, on and off, for centuries. Two events brought the latent antagonisms to the surface: the decision by the Palestine Liberation Organization in the late 1960s to establish its principal base of operations in Lebanon, and Israel's disastrous invasion of the country...
...Russian landscape and gorgeous country estates stun our eyes with crystalline grandeur. The sections of the movie set in a luxurious health spa where bureaucrats take siestas resemble the decadence of Roman orgies. Gorky Park delves into all levels of Russian society, revealing their hidden characters as Renko uncovers latent horrors...
...most famous characters--Amanda in The Glass Menagerie and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire--struggle with self-control and eventually find themselves unable to distinguish fantasy from reality. The characters in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, however, face an unmistakingly real existence controlled by alcoholism, latent homosexuality, and insatiable desire and greed. A successful production of any Williams play requires an intimate understanding of the underlying themes and a willingness to confront them straight on without embellishing the lines with sappy overacting. In a Williams play, the starkness of the words themselves creates the overlying tensions and consequently...