Word: lingers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nearly a year after he took office, the nation over which Ronald Reagan presides is in a gloomy mood. Americans are worried about the state of their country, anxious about inflation, which they do not expect to ease soon, and feeling the pinch of a recession they fear may linger for a year or more...
...attempting to kill a Libyan exile in Rome last June, was found dead of a heart attack in his jail cell two weeks ago, Gaddafi was immediately suspected of being behind his death. The reason: Swaiti may have been poisoned first. An inquiry is now under way. Suspicions also linger that Gaddafi was behind the attempted murder last year of a Libyan dissident in Colorado; Eugene Tafoya, a former Green Beret and a friend of onetime CIA Agent Wilson, was convicted of third-degree assault two weeks ago for the shooting...
...picture is well made in a broad-stroke sort of way. Director Aldrich (The Big Knife, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Hustle) has never been one to linger over subtleties, but he has a good sense of life on the scramble in the less exalted realms of Middle America, and he covers the action in the ring quite brilliantly. One starts to feel one's own tendons screeching as the ladies apply their holds to one another, and the shuddering impact of bodies flung to the canvas registers in the audience's bones. Writer Frohman has concocted...
True Confessions certainly will not bore anyone; nor will it insult the intelligence nor test the patience. A solid citizen of the movie world, it probably will age well and linger pleasantly in the mind. But with the raw material available to its creators, it could have done more, made more of a difference. Like its ultimately disappointed priest, True Confessions might have walked with the angels, but instead settled for life with us mortals...
Americans, a nation of transients, seldom linger long enough in a condo to give it ghosts. There was a time when houses-some houses-sheltered whole generations in sequence, witnessed them and thus acquired a numinous life of their own, a moral dimension that was once much sentimentalized. It was real enough all the same...