Word: plum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this all sounds like pretty horrible stuff out of which to make a light comedy, but Function is--if anything--too tame. Like all British comedy, the pace of this film seems as thick and trudging as cold plum pudding. Bennett spends the first half hour erecting the framework of setting and plot within which his characters work An American used to getting his hamour in rapid-fire bursts can find this very tedious indeed...
Visions of sugar-plum fairies have danced in from of the Harvard women's basketball team all year...
...known Republican protégés within the state, and Democrat Albert Gore Jr. immediately staked his claim. The seat once belonged to his father, who had served as one of the Senate's most eminent members for 18 years. After four terms in the House and plum congressional committee assignments, handsome, likable "Prince Albert" was a Capitol Hill golden boy. In the midsummer polls, he led his opponent by 40 points...
...overhaul the party's presidential nominating procedures. It was Ferraro who drafted the compromise that set aside 14% of the seats at the convention for party and elected officials. Shrewdly refraining from endorsing any of the Democratic presidential candidates, Ferraro asked for and got an election-year plum: chairmanship of the highly visible Democratic platform committee...
...applies to Pelli's design. When the original museum structure, by Philip Goodwin and Edward Durrell Stone, opened in 1939, the architectural tone of 53rd Street-and of midtown Manhattan in general-was set by brownstones, mansions and beaux-arts commercial buildings. It was a world of rich, plum-pudding surfaces. When MOMA raised its polemic International Style façade of glass and polished marble, with those futuristic Swiss-cheese holes in the roof canopy, it looked apparitional. But now the context has shifted again. Thanks to the competitive urges of developers, the very idea of the glass...