Word: meres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acting as a whole is mere window dressing. This is a film about sword fights, and what sword fights there are! The beginning and end of Highlander are so breathtakingly packed with expert swashbuckling and awesome scenery that the audience doesn't have time to stop and disbelieve. Well-timed, quick switches between the caverns of Manhattan and the beautiful Scottish landscape reduce the sensation of temporal incongruity to a minimum. The film should have never stopped to explain all this nonsense about immortality and the Prize. The sword fights and action scenes are what make Highlander a might...
...Central America, there is a mismatch between the Administration's objective and the instruments available, reminiscent of our ill-fated adventure in Lebanon," James Schlesinger, Defense Secretary under Gerald Ford, told TIME last week. "Mere dislike of the Sandinistas is not an - adequate basis for policy." Schlesinger contends that the rebels are no equal for the Nicaraguan army. "To define the American interest as that of the contras is to identify with a losing cause," says he. "To suggest that money for--and victory of--the contras is the only way to avoid introducing American troops is to come close...
...saving rich benefactors from terrible fates. But it turns out that Alger had a dream of his own -- to appeal to grownups. This July the Shoe String Press will publish for the first time Alger's Mabel Parker; or, The Hidden Treasure, a story of true love triumphing over mere monetary pursuits. Now in the archives at Syracuse University, the manuscript originally had a fate most unbecoming to a Horatio Alger story. Just before it was scheduled to be printed in 1878, the publishing house, hard work and all, went bankrupt...
...wound in Harry's chest, the sardines that drop from between the legs of his philandering wife, the elephant that sits on his car -- or the wild cinematic verve that alchemizes each comic grotesquerie into images as vivid as a bad trip. But Bliss is no mere catalog of surrealist gross-outs. It yanks astonished laughs from the viewer to ease the way along a modern pilgrim's progress, one that finds salvation in the doggedness of obsessive love. Harry tracks his recalcitrant Honey to her home; when she rebuffs him, he plants honey-tree saplings that will take eight...
...membership as part of a policy of close ties with the rest of Europe, which was epitomized by Spain's entry into the European Community in January. But Gonzalez's turnaround on the issue has created turmoil in his Socialist Party. He says he will be happy if a mere majority of the Socialists support...