Word: musts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accept the film, though, one must first understand its point of view, and that is maddeningly difficult. All we know for certain is that Do the Right Thing is not naturalistic. Golden sunset hues swathe the street at 10 in the morning. The color scheme is chicly coordinated, as if Jerome Robbins' Sharks and Jets were about to dance onscreen; the picture could be called Bed-Stuy Story, full of Officer Krupkes and kindly store owners. At first, the dilemmas are predictably pastel too: populist cliches brought to life by an attractive cast. Even the racial epithets have a jaunty...
...dust jacket of your new book says that the Pulitzer committee "must have been drunk out of their minds" when they gave you the prize. What ever do you think possessed the Pulitzer jury to give you a prize...
...ample security -- or at least an interest rate commensurate with the risk. If it's a second mortgage, the going rate can be 16% or more, but it's all the more important to ascertain the true market value of the property and obtain other collateral. You must be certain that there's title, fire and flood insurance on the property and that your mortgage is recorded properly. And you should never assume that a property appraised at $300,000 today will yield anything near $300,000 in the event of foreclosure. The appraisal might have been high, selling costs...
Only the venue has changed. Instead of Moscow, Renko must navigate the intricacies of the Polar Star, a huge Soviet factory ship plying the waters of the Bering Sea. Its mission is both prosaic and delicate. It must gather and process 50,000 tons of seafood to contribute to the nourishing of the Soviet people. But its suppliers, who do the actual fishing in exchange for cash, are American trawlers...
...precisely this veneration that makes burning the flag such a potent form of speech. And for the flag to truly stand for freedom of speech, the Supreme Court declared, it must stand for its most potent forms. "We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration," Justice William Brennan wrote, "for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents." Indeed, the decision that Americans have the right to desecrate their flag could be seen as yet another persuasive reason...