Word: mannerly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than unlikely he was on a spying mission. He is as much a spy, said A. M. Rosenthal, executive editor of the New York Times, as Rosenthal's grandmother, who, he adds, was not a spy. The manner in which the Chinese handled the Burns affair belies the nation's paranoia, also shown by the fact that so many parts of China are restricted...
...government periodically acts in a manner that it would consider criminal in private citizens. Acts of state and acts of an individual are judged by different sets of rules because governments are assumed to be more responsible than individuals. Theoretically...
...profit from. He has absorbed its corporate culture all too well. In Alien, of course, company leaders, without warning employees of the danger, callously ordered them to bring an alien back alive, hoping it could be domesticated for use in the weapons division. Now Burke, who has the insinuating manner of an inside trader, is trying to do the same thing, but merely to advance his sleazy career. Perfectly capable of reminding Ripley and Hicks of "the substantial dollar value" of the space station when they propose blowing it up in order to rid the universe of aliens...
...back-to-back suc- cesses made the pair a force to be reckoned with and probably led the studio to let them produce and direct Aliens. Certainly the film would not have been so effective without the experience they gained on The Terminator. Cameron developed his directorial manner in that film -- the low-angled camera, always moving with the action, never allowing the viewers to draw back into objectivity; the quick cutting that never lets them draw a deep breath. Says an admiring Scorsese: "What makes him interesting is his sense of surprise. Every scene builds on the last, then...
...contributing some weighty fare this summer, most notably American Masters, a 15-part series of profiles of some of the country's major creative artists. In the typical manner of PBS umbrella programming, the * individual shows have little in common. Two-thirds were made expressly for the series, presented by New York City's WNET; the rest were purchased from other sources (two of these American portraits were, in fact, made in Britain). They vary widely in style as well as quality. But together they provide a stimulating, season-long meditation on the elusive nature of creativity...