Word: parker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SHOOT THE MOON'S rehashing of the whole litany of mid-life problems is at times interesting, even in its honesty. There are no euphemisms in this film. Director Alms Parker creates scenes of domestic violence that show exactly how the destruction of china and glass is only an attempt to preserve the fragile emotional architecture that overcivilized types like these construct within themselves. When George faces off with Faith's working-class lover in the final scene, the genteelly mad writer smashes his world of material comforts to bits in order to get back at his rival--who, lacking...
...general, though, the movie, dates and limits itself by the very details that make it so topical. Parker narrates almost every scene with overworked Top Forty hits of the late seventies. When the deepest emotional conflcits of a character can be completely explained by Eagles' lyrics, he is surely a child of his times and little more. The redundancy of the lyrics is embarrassing; when Faith's new man, a square-jawed hunk straight out of a Winston ad, starts to make the moves on her, the Stones burst into the living room with "Don't play with me 'cause...
YALE (84)-Gerry Parker 4-3-11: Steve Leondis 6-3-15: Tim Daaleman 3-0-6: Butch Graves 6-3-15: Bart Williams 0-3-3: Chris Kelly 4-4-12: Jim Petela 8-6-22, James Boas-herg 0-0-0: Totals...
...Crimson couldn't overtaked the bulldogs even when two Yale starters--sophomore forward Gerry Parker and junior forward Steve Leondis--fouled out of the game midway through the second half. But Harvard coach Frank McLaughlin said, "When a team gets into foul trouble and the other guys dig down real well, that's a credit to them...
DIED. Thelonious Monk, 64, brilliant and eccentric jazz pianist and founding father of bebop; of a stroke; in Englewood, N. J. As a teenager, Monk honed his highly personal style-skewed melodies, oblique harmonic progressions-in Harlem during the Depression with Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and Alto-Saxman Charlie ("Bird") Parker. He developed an angular breakaway from conventional jazz that came to be known as bebop and, finally, bop. His asymmetrical ideas had a powerful influence on modern jazz musicians and a whole generation of horn players, but Monk himself lapsed into virtual obscurity in the 1950s. Rescued by a series...