Word: rollings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frantic sounds of beverage concealment rose from the backseat. Kevin, speaking from his extensive high school experience with the Montana State Police, announced, "It's okay, you're sober. Just roll down the window He can't touch...
With rock 'n' roll, a generation of kids declared themselves cultural orphans. They told their perplexed parents, "We don't sing the same language. Yours is repression and responsibility; ours is energy and anarchy. Rock music is a code you'll never understand. It takes us higher and deeper than you could ever hope to go. And so you have nothing to teach us. We're tuned in. You butt...
...like many of Paul Schrader's scripts (Taxi Driver, Hardcore, Cat People), uses a strong, simple story to anchor a metaphor for social, familial or sexual relationships. But here he is so true to the characters' desperation that he deprives his film of the electric juice rock 'n' roll lends to much more routine movies. And he is so keyed into the cliches ordinary people use, both to express and to hide from their feelings, that he presses all irony out of the dialogue. This does pay off in two climactic hospital scenes where the raw exposition is nicely translated...
...game before the nine o'clock game is played during rush hour in front of a tiny crowd in the cavernous Garden. By the time the final period starts, the crowd for the real game begins to roll...
...Chinese Academy of Sciences, who were removed from office. They had been responsible for the administration of the rebellious university in Hefei. In addition, Liu Binyan, a prominent journalist, was expelled from the party for attacking Marxism as an "outdated ideology." It was unclear how many more heads might roll, but little doubt remained that China's latest experiment in political relaxation had come to a halt...