Word: rags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inevitable. As photographed by David Watkin (Out of Africa), Moonstruck is as pristine and fanciful as Lady and the Tramp. As directed by Norman Jewison (A Soldier's Story), it moves with the crack of sexual friction. Jewison has also put together a terrific ensemble of actors. Cher, rag-dolled up in heavy Sicilian eyebrows, relaxes into her most engaging movie role. And Cage has a great time segueing from Stanley Kowalski, absentmindedly scratching himself with his prosthesis, into a Brooklyn Barrymore. Moonstruck proves there is life in movie comedy yet. Enough, at least, to survive till next Christmas...
...last 150 Soviet missiles will be sent to Afghanistan. Russia hasn't used atomic weapons against the rag-tag Afghan resistance because they know Pakistan is well-stocked with arms and trigger-fingered. But the Soviets believe their rockets may well do heavy damage to any Afghan villages that are still standing. America may be forced to send a few of the sawed-off missiles to the other side. Welcome to "peace...
After all, how did a rag-tag bunch of college hockey players defeat the Soviets in 1980 when the NHL. All-Stars couldn...
...absence of a professional circuit in Communist countries means that the best players in the nation compete in the Olympics, a luxury not available to the Americans and Canadians. Thus it was truly remarkable in 1980 when a bunch of rag-tag collegians thumped the Russian National Team, which routinely beat the NHL All-Stars...
...play's more overt symbolic actions silly. Jake opens a box of his father's ashes and blows. An American flag somehow finds itself draped like a blanket around Jake's shoulder's and later stuffed like a bridle into his mouth or tied like an old rag around Mike's rifle barrel. But these tend to be balanced by moments in which the play takes itself less seriously, as when Lorraine says of Beth and Jake, "A woman who lives with a man like that deserves to be killed," or when Baylor rhapsodizes, "Hunting is no hobby...