Word: moon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world survived the alignment of the earth, moon, sun, Jupiter and Venus this week although some people had speculated that the alignment would cause major disasters. Scientists at Harvard refuted a 1974 book called "The Jupiter Effect," which predicted that high winds and earthquakes would follow the rare grouping of the planets, but the masses were still alarmed. The Harvard observatory received 150 to 200 calls from people anxious to know whether the world would end. It didn...
Huchra explained that the event itself is not unprecedented: Every 13 years, the earth, moon, sun, Jupiter and Venus align similarly without significant effect on the earth...
...lent him an image as a commited and unwaivering leadership-s President who did what he laid. Now Reagan's initiatives appear carelessly and irresponsibly constructed. The dissension among his staff and Republican leaders now make Reagan seem a simpleton, typecast and mean-spirited. During Reagan's honey moon with both press and Congress he could afford rigid and dogmatic complacency. The press's belated but welcome scrutiny can only help make him reconsider-or stick to his guns and face political stalemate or disaster...
...SHOOT THE MOON'S rehashing of the whole litany of mid-life problems is at times interesting, even in its honesty. There are no euphemisms in this film. Director Alms Parker creates scenes of domestic violence that show exactly how the destruction of china and glass is only an attempt to preserve the fragile emotional architecture that overcivilized types like these construct within themselves. When George faces off with Faith's working-class lover in the final scene, the genteelly mad writer smashes his world of material comforts to bits in order to get back at his rival--who, lacking...
Shoot the Moon is an adequate mirror of our times--but not much more. It tells us little about ourselves that we have not been told before. At least it offers no easy answers. But its topicality limits it, and its very timeliness will soon date it. It is among the best of a boring genre...