Word: motions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine on his shoes or Busby Berkeley deploy his battalion of chorines...
Death is the antithesis of time, since death means infinite stopping, while time means infinite motion. It may be that we are willingly caught up in time because we seek to stave off death. But the effort is self-defeating if life begins to feel like death, if in fact nothing seems worth dying for. All our familiar complaints about the lack of heroism in modern life may be traced to our servitude to time. Save time, beat the clock. The only real way a clock may be beaten is to pay no attention to it, to rediscover privacy, cling...
...mood of the Games, if not necessarily the quality of the competition. The success of the Games was Ueberroth's, and America's, unanswerable reply to the Soviets. The Games drew a vivid implicit contrast between American and Soviet styles--the American Games all light and air and flashing motion (the essence of freedom dramatized), while the Soviets sulked in their totalitarian dusk...
...Twas the week before Christinas, and all through the House, not a motion was stirring ... But that did not stop Speaker Tip O'Neill, 72, from mounting the podium. The venerable Democrat journeyed to his home state last week to narrate A Visit from St. Nicholas with the Boston Pops. Although O'Neill had rehearsed with the orchestra only once, neither he nor Conductor John Williams missed a beat, even when the audience interrupted the narrative with laughter and applause whenever O'Neill's eyebrows started moving con brio. Afterward the Speaker confessed that...
Having dealt with the machine's more visible flaws, IBM immediately set in motion a two-pronged marketing campaign that combined dramatic price cuts with blitzkrieg advertising-radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, even direct mail. The price cutting began in earnest in July, when IBM slashed the cost of the basic one-diskdrive model from $1,269 to $999. In mid-October, the company offered dealers an extra $250 rebate and encouraged them to pass on the savings to customers by selling the machine with heavily discounted software and peripheral equipment. By November, computer stores were offering a computer...