Word: neat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever could have imagined. And the story stays sweet for a while. Corry shows the first triumphant flush of Irish-Catholic society, as Murray's innumerable children factored their father's millions into a family treasury that surpassed even the Kennedys', and then built a towering wall around their neat little world of well-monied Catholicism to keep out all the heathen WASPs they had learned both to envy and despise. But then it all turned sour. With a resigned air, Corry tells the sad story of how Murray's grandchildren finally broke the cozy circle, choosing to marry Fords...
...wearing underneath his disguise as he rescues a child from a potentially nasty accident. Much small-arms fire and much suspenseful running about ensue, well staged by the veteran director Sturges (Bad Day at Black Rock, The Great Escape). There is a satisfying surprise ending that serves as a neat moral reckoning as well...
...football bruiser turned singles-bar cruiser. Sitting in the front row is his natural enemy, Mrs. Beasley, the perfect housewife from Calumet City, Ill. Mrs. Beasley's brain is a pincushion of anxiety. "These days it's not enough for a housewife to be loving and neat as a pin," she frets. "We must be creative. There are some things you can make so cleverly that it is virtually impossible for anyone to tell if you have talent...
Rumours proves that personal tragedy need not restrict artistic achievement--maybe it even encourages it. On "Gold Dust Woman," Stevie Nicks questions whether the group can "pick up the pieces and go home." Not only picking up the pieces, Fleetwood Mac has fit them together into a neat jigsaw puzzle. Nicks may believe that "rulers make bad lovers," but Rumours shows that bad lovers are capable sovereigns in the realm of music...
...banned at state dinners; Billy drank it from the bottle at the Inauguration. In a very convenient way he represents everything his brother could not be as a candidate or as president but which is popular anyway. In terms of image, the whole thing is a bit too neat--the moral issues on which the President is both so popular and so vulnerable are balanced off too perfectly by Billy's redneck routine...