Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the Heart, it is refreshing to come upon a Coppola film that is, bless it, only a movie. Alas, The Outsiders is not quite a good one. Because it falls in with the undulating rhythm of the life of its heroes, for whom a fatal fight and a quiet night have almost equal importance, the picture never manages to reach the peaks of satisfying Hollywood melodrama. Nor are the greasers romanticized enough to be seen as avatars of the outlaw lovers in Frank Borzage's Moonrise or Nicholas Ray's They Live by Night. Like the greasers...
Like the historical Middle Ages, the present era strikes Gurney as a time to conserve a dwindling heritage. His central character admires the medieval period as "a quiet, dull life punctuated by ceremony " That describes precisely the ordered, ancestor-worshiping existence of the families in The Middle Ages and, more broadly, of virtually all families. By the play's end, Gurney's rebel reconciles himself-and the audience-to the serene rewards of dull domesticity...
...landed on a beach near Port Stanley. That is a sad realization for the "kelpers," as the natives proudly call themselves, after the seaweed that grows abundantly in their waters. Says Steve Whitely, 33, a veterinarian who emigrated from Scotland seven years ago: "Before the war, it was so quiet. You knew everybody. A lot of people never thought of the 'after...
With the establishment of the Grand Forks Air Force Base a few years back, the size of the city grew tremendously. So did the number of nuclear missiles that now act as neighbors to this quiet little Northern plains town...
...duty that quiet Friday night in the newsroom of WHMA-TV, Channel 40, the only TV station in Anniston, Ala. (pop. 29,500), were a woman office worker and Photographer Ronald Simmons, 30, and Sound Technician Gary Harris, 18. Both men had been up since early morning covering a high school basketball tournament...