Word: ron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Local merchants could no longer let their fingers do the walking. "I drove to 30 offices the other day to post a new listing," moaned Real Estate Broker Marge Novak. To cope with municipal business, Hinsdale Village Manager Ron Ruskey installed a cellular phone in his briefcase. Eight police cars with two-way radios were posted to permanent stations around town to help residents report emergencies. When students realized that attendance officers could not call home to check up on them, Hinsdale schools reported a sudden surge in truancies. Patients found they could not call their doctors, and the emergency...
...Lucas film will have vagrant charms. Davis is ingratiating. So is Julie Peters playing his wife, as patient as Penelope. Director Ron Howard (Splash, Cocoon) gets the social politics of the dwarfs' village right, but he is not adept at action scenes: some are too busy; others are botched. Kilmer tries hard in a role that might have fit Mel Gibson like an iron glove, and Whalley, teen angel of the serious British mini-series (The Edge of Darkness, The Singing Detective) is wasted as the heroine. Both Kilmer and Whalley, in fact, are curiously irrelevant to the climactic battle...
...such stellar company, Co-Stars Joe Mantegna, a 1984 Tony Award winner for Glengarry, and Ron Silver, a movie and TV veteran (Silkwood, NBC's Billionaire Boys Club), might almost be an afterthought. In fact, the interaction between Mantegna as the mogul and Silver as a shameless huckster is the core of Mamet's pell-mell 88-minute play. Of all American playwrights, Mamet, 40, remains the shrewdest observer of the evil that men do unto each other in the name of buddyhood. Obsessed with the need for ethical debate, he nonetheless brings as much delight as despair...
...evening session in the House of Commons was nearly over when Labor Member Ron Brown did the unforgettable -- and unforgivable. Frustrated by the government's tax policies and cuts in welfare spending, Brown roared down from his back-bench seat, hurled papers at a minister, then grabbed the 17th century ceremonial mace that rests at the center of the Commons and threw it to the floor. The nearly 5-ft.-long staff, part of the Crown Jewels, is a cherished symbol of Parliament's rule...
...spirit, all these blockbusters -- among the top grossers in movie history -- were closer to the cartoon classics than the late-'70s Disney product was. Without its founder, the studio floundered, producing modest cartoons, lame sequels and sci-fi thrillers without art or heart. However conscientiously Ron Miller ran the shop, he was no match for Lucas and Spielberg. As if by osmosis, these young outsiders had learned the master's lessons of film artistry and audience manipulation. Miller was Disney's son-in-law, but Lucas and Spielberg were Walt's true heirs...