Word: paradigm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...store scene is wonderful, a perfect paradigm of the kind of tangled wrangle no true New Yorker can resist joining. By the time the sequence is over, the FBI and the KGB are disputing sovereignty over Vladimir Ivanoffs befuddled soul, helped along by the N.Y.P.D., the store's security force, a nice lady from the perfume counter, a gallant homosexual from men's wear and assorted shoppers. Thereafter, though, the film loses its verve...
...PARADIGM OF EXCELLENCE...
...master's original. Director Howard Zieff has retained the classic farcical premise: a jealous husband (Dudley Moore) is erroneously convinced that his young wife (Nastassja Kinski) is cuckolding him and is maniacally determined to gain revenge. Sturges' neat twists are retained too: the husband is still that paradigm of dignity in need of mussing, a symphony orchestra conductor; and while leading the orchestra, he still fantasizes a perfect but totally impractical plot to murder his bride...
...raised quite a furor a year ago when he announced that he would take a leave of absence from his daily comic strip "Doonesbury." In explaining his sabbatical, Trudeau mentioned something about his characters, children of the '60s, needing to grow up and move on. "Doonesbury," created in the paradigm of the radical '60s, just wasn't funny under the Reagan Administration...
...FIND A paradigm for the rampant misunderstandings between Blacks and whites in America, one need look no further than the Freshman Union. Freshman Black tables--organized or spontancous gatherings of Black students at the same few tables meal after meal--have long inspired debate on just how integrated Harvard students should be. Most Black students seem to view the fact that Blacks sit at the same takes together at meals and attend the same parties as a good thing, while many whites see the same situation as a symptom of racial polarization and terrorism. Black students, binding together...