Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realizes suddenly that the hunting accident he was involved in as a young boy was no such thing. His father, a thunderous Mississippian straight out of Faulkner, had vainly tried to kill both Will and himself. A later attempt at suicide succeeded, spurring Will to set out on a path as unlike his father's as possible: "God, just to get away from all that and live an ordinary mild mercantile money-making life, do mild sailing, mild poodle-walking, mild music-loving among mild good-natured folks." He sees now that "his little Yankee life had not worked...
...Paths dissect Boston Common; at the widest point on any trail, you're maybe 20 yards from another of the walkways. But only a few are wide enough to accomodate a police car, and these are far less populated than the others, for the police do not like people gathering in their park. "You should have been here five minutes ago," one young man tells two others as they stroll up the path to his bench. "Motherfuckin cops took a case of beer off me, and all I got was one can." An hour later, with a replenished supply...
Alan J. Parker leads us along an analogous cinematic path in Fame. Despite inherently interesting material and an alluring score by Michael Gore, Fame is mired in an endless series of camera pans and scenes that beg a batch of questions. Parker leaves his audience hanging--for two hours--drawing us into his den with upbeat music and rousing clips of rhythmic, euphoric chaos. But characters rarely develop, and when they do, their plight and the plot remain exasperatingly unresolved...
...Hera and Zeus, the Olympic torch was lit last week. For the next month, 4,820 runners-one for each kilometer of the route via Bulgaria and Rumania-will carry the flame to the newly refurbished Lenin Stadium on the Moscow River. When the torch gets there, the path should be clear. Moscow police are seeing to that, with zealous traffic control in preparation for the Games. Their strategy has totalitarian simplicity: no drivers, no traffic. Although Moscow motorists usually cruise at about 50 m.p.h., police have begun stopping cars going over the legal 37 m.p.h. limit...
...comes on at 9 p.m. and lasts 35 minutes, with a man and a woman, both about 40, alternately reading the day's events. Stories dealing with the West, particularly the U.S., tend to be heavily disapproving. Viewers learn that President Carter has turned on to "the path of a new cold war and arms race" and that the American people oppose Washington's boycott of the Moscow Olympics...