Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Edwards' script follows the pattern of his direction. He strikes on target at the beginning, setting up his figures to be knocked into the dust. The shadow that Tinsel Town casts on the lives of his characters, the absurd system of priorities that makes an angry man quote box office figures to his wife in the heat of the argument: These are the moments when Edwards nears his goal. Once the focus shifts to Farmer alone, the tone of the film becomes skewed, strained. The film cannot survive on its own, when it's not pontificating on the medium...
...court has "significant symbolic importance." But she too is wary: "There can be such a thing as a token woman on the Supreme Court to avoid addressing women's issues." For most observers, the real test is whether Ronald Reagan is about to depart from his early appointments pattern by naming women to a number of other important posts. On that point, the jury is awaiting the evidence...
...unbending morally, for Sally turns around and blithely participates in a plot to steal Felix's remade movie back from him. He dies defending it ("Don't worry, this could add $10 million to the box office") and is accorded a soundstage funeral-a stained-glass pattern projected on a cyclorama, his wife's guru reading from such sacred works as his list of credits (Chicken at the Wheel, Love on a Pogo Stick) and reports of boffo grosses for his last work. The mourners, of course, go right on making deals and trying to steal...
...upsurge in protest calls and letters to networks, local stations, sponsors or retail stores. CBS had received only about 50 letters on the proposed boycott; half opposed the idea. NBC Vice Chairman Richard Salant said he had recently received 'thousands" of Christian brochures, some with accompanying letters, a pattern familiar to networks and rarely taken seriously: almost all were protesting Love, Sidney, a new situation comedy that is being considered for NBC's fall schedule with a homosexual as the title character. Dow Chemical, which was listed as the second "least constructive" advertiser in a December 1980 report...
...This pattern can lead to a psychological dependence whose effects are not all that different from addiction. Moreover, there is growing clinical evidence that when coke is taken in the most potent and dangerous forms-injected in solution, or chemically converted and smoked in the process called freebasing-it may indeed become addictive...