Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before anyone even tried to understand. In 1978, a social worker at a mental hospital in Manteno, Ill., took Tom to a Chinese restaurant, where he had a conversation in Cantonese dialect with the cook. There was nothing wrong with Tom, the cook told the hospital staff, setting in motion a four-year battle in the state courts to win his release. Tom's long nightmare had begun when, suffering from tuberculosis, he was admitted to a sanatorium. Because what he said seemed incomprehensible, he was later diagnosed as a retarded schizophrenic...
...memory keeps one picture in particular: St. Peter's Square in May 1981. It shows Pope John Paul II in white robes, capsized backward on his seat, stricken, in a posture vaguely reminiscent of the Pietà. There is an adrenal burst of motion in the scene as the security men spring alive and the Pontiff's white Popemobile lurches off through the crowd...
...most able legislators in the House could be summarily removed without even so much as a debate was taken as proof positive by Democrats and Republicans alike that Speaker McGee clearly poses a threat to the future of pluralistic politics in Massachusetts. McGee survived the succeeding no-confidence motion, but 26 courageous representatives voted against the Speaker, with 35 others registering as present. Most felt that while McGee had acted in an outrageous fashion, he had not as yet broken any specific rules. According to Rep. Michael Barrett '70 of Reading, a vote of present "defined a protest--a sanctuary...
Considering that most of the movie takes place in a stygian cave, The Keep looks gorgeous. Slow motion and pixilation enhance the spooky mood; a telephoto lens turns the castle into a pointillist magic mountain. It is cinematic balm when a fantasy movie pays informed tribute to the decorative arts. It is also, most likely, box-office poison...
...have murdered her in order to silence her has occurred to many on the left and among feminists, who were quick to claim Silkwood for their own. Sooner or later she was bound to become the subject of that final step in the canonization of secular saints, a major motion picture...