Word: raving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like most lieutenant governors, O'Neill's effectiveness has depended heavily on his relationship with his boss. Elected with Michael S. Dukakis in 1974, he strengthened the Commonwealth's Washington ties and received rave reviews from conservatives and liberals for increasing the flow of federal dollars into the Massachusetts treasury...
Director Frank Perry seems content simply to let Joan and Christina rant and rave at each other, and he makes few attempts to explain Joan's complex characters or to dig beneath the disputes for the real reasons for Crawford's mistreatment of her daughter. When the scenes roll around in which Joan is nice to her daughter, we are only further confused. The relationship between Christina and Joan is shown through a series of vignettes which take place over a span of 30 years, but these scenes are only loosely strung together. They argue here, they argue there, time...
Leave me free to rave in my delirium...
Justice was swift in the Old West; vengeance is mined in the New Hollywood. United Artists, which had rashly built the film's publicity campaign on the hope of rave reviews, withdrew Heaven's Gate in the wake of devastating pans. And the rash spread. Within days, all Hollywood was being held responsible for one director's profligacy, one studio's negligence. Every big-budget movie was the target of japery: Robert Evans' Popeye became "Evans' Gate," Warren Beatty's forthcoming Reds was "Warren's Gate...
...Americans are a funny bunch. Faced with the most appalling crime statistics, how can you even argue about the importance of banning handguns? Constitutional rights, my foot! Your whole way of life is at stake, and you rave about rights that take you back to the jungle...