Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film's architecture: mammoth and soulless, with huge intestinal piping that snakes through every elegant living room and posh restaurant. Imagine that the amiable English temperament was forced to accommodate itself to totalitarianism, and you can anticipate the courtesy with which the riot squad goons knock our hero, Sam Lowry, unconscious ("Sorry, sir, regulations"). Slogans of the police state are everywhere: DON'T SUSPECT A FRIEND--REPORT HIM. And scrawled on a tenement wall is the most obscene graffito of all: REALITY...
...Sam Shepard's voice has often seemed querulous or cruelly funny. Even as he was attracting an avid following as perhaps America's foremost active playwright, critics sensed in his plays a compulsive urge toward violence, a lack of compassion, a reveling in the bizarre. His comic scenes made viewers wonder whether he was laughing with or at his characters. His work has shifted from expressionist flights of fancy to a kind of grim, weird naturalism and has tended more and more to portray families as the poisoned wellspring of human evil. He has brought to life the same fumbling...
...Halloween. The goblins of the White House press corps swarmed around, wanting to know how the Soviets felt about going to interview Ronald Reagan. ABC's Sam Donaldson shouted, "Are you going to ask him about 'the evil empire'?" The visitors, looking apprehensive, smiled determinedly, declined to answer and trudged through the horde...
...afternoons after football games are busiest for Sam, who adds that the Dartmouth weekend provided an especially large crowd. "It was like a zoo," he says of the hordes who clamored for Rocky Road and Mandarin Orange Sherbet...
Comparing his parlor to the newer ones in the Square, Sam says the "only difference is in personal taste. Some have better chocolate or vanilla, but they're all about equal. In terms of price we're the least expensive...