Word: maintain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie also fails to maintain this half-mocking stance. Instead, it returns to the typical old flame rekindled, the typical crowed panics, and all of the supposedly impending doom comes off as simple tedium. The music echoes the rumblings of Jaws, and endless towering boadwalks leer at the audience. The movie takes back everything it is trying to create, be they screams of terror or howls of laughter...
...Kramer--the suburban housewife who finds herself shrinking as a result of over-exposure to the many mysterious chemicals in the innumerable deodorants, detergents, dishwashing liquids, hairsprays, etc., that she can't live without--Tomlin is this year's model of Suzy Homemaker. Struggling to maintain an efficient, happy household, Pat Kramer is the confused, vaguely liberated woman; her license plate reads MS. MOM, Well-versed in pop culture and self-improvement jargon, Pat wants to be the Complete Woman, the mother-lover-maid with her own personal space and identity and everything else Phil Donahue's guests tell...
...place at the center of our culture. This returns her to her theme: "the moving picture...cannot be an idea spreader...A film cannot have a spokesman or chorus character to point the moral." Regardless of the film's "victory" over the novel, this contention would be difficult to maintain; film history, from Triumph of the Will to Norma Rac, proves her wrong...
Aquino and other opponents of Marcos maintain that the election will have little effect on Philippine politics unless the current constitution is amended. Under the 1973 constitution, established by Marcos during martial law, the president is "only a ceremonial officer," he said...
...investigation by a Salvadoran commission into the murders of four American missionaries last month. Despite the lack of evidence that any investigation was even going forward, Washington moved swiftly to resume $5 million in nonlethal matériel-jeeps, trucks and transport helicopters, with U.S. technicians to maintain them...