Word: lull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only last spring, the civil war in Nicaragua, deep into its eighth year, seemed to be in a peaceful lull. The Marxist-oriented Sandinista government was meeting face to face with the U.S.-backed contras and loudly promising to install democracy in Managua. In Washington the House defied Reagan Administration pleas and voted down military support for the guerrillas. But last week, in a sudden burst of high-handed actions, the Sandinistas raised fresh doubts about their intentions and provoked forceful new White House calls for lethal aid to the contras...
...doom-dreary A Short Film About Killing , (winner of the third-place Jury Prize), a young man hails a cab and pointlessly murders the driver. Takes forever! Much jollier is Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals, an opera film about some Portuguese aristocrats. It proceeds at a gentle lull for an hour, then explodes in a delicious orgy of artificial limbs, charred torsos and a family feast of roast viscount. Like David Lean, Oliveira turns 80 this year. Like Luis Bunuel, he makes gaily macabre films -- an old master's last laugh at life and death...
After a brief lull in the fierce attack, the Crimson once again loaded its repeating rifle. Before Millner had time to recover, the Crimson scored three more goals in the final three minutes of the game...
JAMES TAYLOR: NEVER DIE YOUNG (Columbia). His best album in a decade. The music may lull, but just to ease the way for some lacerating lyrics on the ironies and intricacies of love...
Robert Dole called it a "man-to-man" talk, but it looked and sounded more like a tirade. During a lull in the Senate contra-aid debate, the Republican leader angrily strode up to the rostrum where George Bush was presiding, pounded on the desk and waved a Bush campaign press release in the Vice President's face. For five minutes he took his rival for the Republican presidential nomination to task for practicing what he called "low-down, nasty, mean politics...