Word: layered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successful film that did not make money and announces, solemnly, that there cannot. At the outset, Silver's character is pitching a violent prison film starring a "bankable" macho star. At the end, he and the Mantegna character are on their way to meet with the next executive layer for final approval...
...child growing up on the reservation, the images of poverty blot out the virtues of cultural identity. "Look at the houses, look at the shacks," he says. "Most likely she'd grow up, get disgusted, leave and never come back." Last week Allyssa awaited her fate wearing a layer of sweet powder. A Navajo medicine man had covered her with it during a ceremony performed to expel evil spirits. Perhaps it will protect her from the injuries of a bitter custody fight...
...Dukakis is very exciting. After he won in Wisconsin, he painted the town beige," Carpenter said. "I think Gore is smart, but he's so young...He dreams of a safe ozone layer...He dreams of his own apartment...
...hogwash." U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop promptly called the work "irresponsible" and accused Masters and Johnson of "scare tactics." "There are no scientific data to support these alarming statements," warned Dr. Stephen Joseph, New York City's health commissioner. "They pile their statements, each holding a thin layer of established fact, on top of one another like slices of bologna." Many criticized the trio for first publishing their findings in a mass-market book, which was excerpted last week in Newsweek, instead of in a scientific journal where their data would have been carefully scrutinized. A Chicago Tribune editorial...
...simply a remake of the Walter Mondale-Gary Hart spats of four years ago. Despite some differences on foreign policy, Gore and Dukakis represent much the same style of end-to-ideology Democratic pragmatism. Gore prospered in Congress by stressing a host of technocratic issues, ranging from the ozone layer to organ transplants. Ever since his comeback victory as Governor in 1982, Dukakis has artfully avoided most of the pitfalls of free-spending liberalism. His major initiatives, like welfare reform and industrial development, were designed to blur ideological differences rather than accentuate them...