Word: picnics
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...part it is a return from the long vacation of the Reagan years, Americans coming back from the picnic of restored nationalism and morale, a necessary pause, to discover that the old problems are still there, only in some ways worse now. The Indian summer was lovely, but the weather turned cold: Provide, provide! That holiday was paid for by more than doubling the national debt, to $2.2 trillion. Time to look for new ideas, time to move beyond the era of self-congratulation and beer-commercial patriotism. America cannot afford stupidity. It costs too much in the world. Education...
...Throw away the film and use the reels as Frisbees at the company picnic, or better yet, pile the reels on top of one another to make a few nifty side tables or stools...
...most romantic Valentine's Day would be in California, we would go to a park on the beach and have a picnic and a bottle of wine," says Glenn S. Philips...
Railroad stations in cities as staid and ordered as Grenoble and Lyons look like those in Naples. Among the throngs of stranded passengers, French families accustomed to better things share sausages and bread, using newspapers as picnic tablecloths. With rail traffic cut to 40% of normal, queues form behind charter-bus drivers showing their destinations on cardboard signs and shouting out the departure times. In Lyons's Part Dieu station, an illuminated advertising billboard shows a streaking orange superspeed train and carries the slogan that with the national French railway EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE! Some irate, but erudite passenger has scrawled...
...does a director of Peter Weir's caliber make a miscalculation of this magnitude? One suspects that this passionate and meticulous Australian filmmaker was carried away by his own obsession. From his first success (Picnic at Hanging Rock) to his last (Witness), Weir has been at pains to dislocate rationality, placing representatives of Western "civilization" in primitive contexts, where their normal habits of mind and behavior can only mislead them. Doubtless he saw Allie as a bracing variant on his favorite sort of central figure. Perhaps Weir saw in this sacred monster the makings of dark comedy; Allie...