Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adopting a simian gait and snarling "Faggot!" at a rude driver. Later, when the aggressively hetero band of agents wants to guard the couple while remaining inconspicuous, they don dresses and uni-sex apparel. Renato teaching the tough guys how to walk effeminately creates a wonderful parallel to the scene in the first La Cage in which he tried to show Albin how to "eat with masculinity...
...with the Nicaraguan regime and could give Sandinista hard-liners an excuse to end any pretense at political pluralism and turn even more openly to the Soviet Union and its allies for support. An American diplomat in Managua, fearing the results of an aid cut off, cited an ominous parallel: "Twenty years ago in Cuba, we left no doors open. Here, there is a real chance that the Sandinistas might walk through such a door." But the Reagan Administration may decide that it is politically more important to give the Sandinistas an object lesson in the cost of supporting international...
...Raiders boast a parallel on defense, Ted Hendricks, the Mad Stork. Together with "Dark Days" Lester Hayes--who recalls Dick "Night Train" Lane, having picked off 18 passes in 19 games--Hendricks will vanguard the Raiders' effort to eviscerate the birds...
...saga of Ryder vs. Ryder is heading into the courtroom. Ryder System last spring sued Jartran for stealing its trademark, logo and business methods. Both Ryder and Jartran trucks have two parallel, horizontal stripes across their sides and display the slogan RENT ONE WAY & LOCAL in similar designs. Jartran ads feature large pictures of James Ryder and tout him as "the man who invented truck rental." Moreover, Ryder contends that Jartran is raiding its personnel and that some 150 former Ryder employees work for the new company. Admits James Ryder: "Most of them have come on their...
Breaker Morant persuasively posits a parallel between this century's first large-scale colonial conflict (the Boer War) and its most recent (Viet Nam). It derives from that analogy an immediacy that one does not often find in films set in the dimming past. But there is a larger success: this very traditional-looking film is dramatically taut, full of strongly developed characters who never deteriorate into good-guy, bad-guy spokesmanship. There is no doubt that the soldiers committed the crimes with which they are charged. But their defense attorney (well played by Jack Thompson) argues that...