Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Players take the money but not the nonsense. They tune out, lose interest or ask to be traded. No amount of money is worth the mind games the Yankees' organization plays. No amount of money is worth the loss of dignity...
...article, "No More Joe," implied that Joseph Kennedy was unsuitable for public office because, on a visit to the North of Ireland, he "heckled and harangued young British soldiers like an irresponsible adolescent." In fact, when Kennedy was himself heckled and harangued by the British soldiers, he spoke his mind in declaring that the oppressive British presence has no place in Ireland. Unlike most American politicians, who kowtow to Margaret Thatcher and her imperialist crew, Kennedy openly criticized Britain's role in keeping Ireland divided and at war. In declaring a nation's right to sovreignty and self-determination...
Calvino explores hearing and smell with comparable insight and deftness. In A King Listens, a monarch whose power depends on his remaining glued to his ! throne becomes a paranoiac, his mind an echo chamber of suspicion, as he is deprived of all stimuli -- save for the aural -- from beyond his hall. And in The Name, the Nose, three characters try to track down unknown women whose odors have intoxicated them...
...Dark insists on cutting away from the Chamberlains' personal drama to show, efficiently and effectively, how mass journalism, ever in search of uncomplicated images, feeds the mass mind's need for simple ideas. It is also savagely critical of expert forensic witnesses in criminal cases. In short, it is a movie relentlessly true to its own belief that what is too quickly grasped may be misunderstood. Streep's performance is in that vein, awesomely tough-minded. No actress has ever played a victim more austerely. Flat-voiced, pinching off every temptation to high drama, she refuses to force this character...
...last, as the candidates -- some eagerly and others grudgingly -- submit to the discipline of their handlers. The growing sophistication of such research techniques as focus groups and audience meters enhances the underlying cynicism of modern politics. As on Wall Street, success is measured solely by the bottom line -- never mind such idealistic notions as conducting a dialogue with the electorate...