Word: reminds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when he goes to Camp David, Reagan finds a kind of contentment. "At Camp David," he says, "suddenly you're in a house that's house size." His trips beyond Washington ("a company town") remind him that it is "not quite as real there. You get out and you rediscover America." Reagan's daily newspaper reading is the editorials and the comics. He gets the news in a digest prepared by his staff. His favorite place remains his small ranch near Santa Barbara. He sounds almost biblical when he talks about it. "I look to the hills...
...about Lebanon was two-pronged. First, Jerusalem would cooperate, to a degree, with the Habib negotiations, especially since the Reagan Administration was so committed to the talks. Second, Prime Minister Begin's government would periodically apply heavy military pressure on P.L.O. positions in West Beirut in order to remind the Palestinian leaders that their only choice was to leave Lebanon. Israeli officials declared that these "salami-style" maneuvers of slicing away at the Palestinian redoubt in West Beirut would be conducted only in response to P.L.O. ceasefire violations. But there were bound to be violations, as the Israelis well...
There is enough of the old Woody Allen in AMNSC to remind the still faithful of the old abundant pleasures. The interweaving themes are sex and love; the tone is summer-solstice warm; the six characters dance an amorous roundelay whose steps are guided by biology, sympathy and caprice. Woody is again the chronically lovable shlemiel, torn between his passion for the ethereal Ariel (Mia Farrow) and his longing for the wife (Mary Steenburgen) he cannot satisfy sexually. When he tries and she finds his ardor disgusting, he retorts, "How can it be? I haven't taken my clothes...
...offering a look at one of the world's most impor tant dramatic institutions at its very best-a'rich, culturally resonant blend of acting, sets, costumes, music and dancing that is likely to remind gaijin of grand opera melodrama, situation comedy and Richard III all at once...
...remind glassy-eyed viewers that the scenes are not simply enlarged reproductions of originals, Director Eytchison shows the cast actually taking their places in the Homer painting while screens of a roiling sea and a tempestuous sky are lowered into place. It is the hit of the show. A mildly didactic narration is supplied by eight-year Veteran Thurl Ravenscroft, who provides off-pageant the voice for television's Tony the Tiger ("Grreeaatt!"). There is a suitably reverent score by Richard Henn, a prolific composer who has scored five feature films...