Word: roiled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aired Wednesday in 21 U.S. cities, and this spring will see two new movies set in Viet Nam, The Hanoi Hilton and Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. In a movie season of Trekkies, Dundees and dentist-devouring houseplants, Oliver Stone has proved that a film can still roil the blood of the American body politic. Platoon the picture is now Platoon the phenomenon...
...Timothy Lupton, falls in love with Maudie, while her mother decides that this dashed handsome young bohemian's attentions are directed at her. Added to this mix-up are cameo appearances by Victorian notables like Walter Pater, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope and Thomas Huxley. But beneath this sparkling surface roil undercurrents of genuine pain. Nettleship, a figure of fun in all his balding, pedantic outward manifestations, knows himself well enough to realize that he has botched his life and that the gloom he suffered when he could no longer believe in God "earned him the hatred of both his children...
...Norman Lear, creator of the TV series All in the Family, and A. Jerrold Perenchio, promoter of the 1971 Ali-Frazier fight. As principals in cash-rich L.P. Media, Lear and Perenchio had offered $1,000 a share for ENA stock last month. That offer alone was enough to roil the Scripps family: ENA stock had been selling sporadically at only $150 a share two years ago. Late last year, in an attempt to placate family members disgruntled over the stock's performance, Clark bought back 31,500 of ENA's total 453,000 shares at $250 a ! share. When...
...takeover was the latest sign of the turbulence that continues to roil the airline industry. The fare wars set loose by deregulation in 1978 have created an environment in which only the fittest seem able to stay healthy. The turmoil has produced deep financial woes for some carriers and rampant confusion for travelers, who can barely keep up with changing prices and the innumerable restrictions that apply. Among the latest other developments...
...novelist can describe time's flow past a few more bends in the river, nothing more. And nothing less: seen well, the currents and eddies that quicken, disappear and roil to the surface again during two generations of an ordinary family's journey are astonishing and mysterious. Fat-legged baby becomes child, becomes maiden, becomes mother, becomes crone. Which is real? Blink twice; the young hell raiser reappears as the sour pensioner. Which is illusion, hot sexuality or bitter recollection...