Word: screen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nerves: "little by little I recognize in myself a growing desire for readability...I want the texts I write to be readable, too...." But the air of gratuitousness embellished with sincerity leads us to suspect that we are imprisoned in a confessional--on the wrong side of the screen--listening with horror and fascination to the "powerful and pathetic stream" of Barthes' language...
...since the day before Spring Break (when "The Big Chill" and "St. Elmo's Fire" were screened), the 10-year old duos are back--only now they're at the one-screen Janus Cinema on nearby JFK Street...
...just came across the blue line, and there seemed to be a lot of congestion on the left side," Smith said. "I crossed in front of the defenseman and used the defenseman as a screen. I think I surprised the goalie. I didn't think it was that hard of a shot...
...pointing out that the careers he has pursued seldom overlap. A barrister who became a Queen's Counsel and practiced in the loftiest reaches of the British legal system, he might also be described as the best lawyer ever to write for the stage (A Voyage Round My Father), screen (John and Mary) and television (Brideshead Revisited, Rumpole of the Bailey). Now Mortimer, 62, has earned another encomium: he is the only adapter of Evelyn Waugh ever to have produced a long novel about the past 40 years of life in England...
...preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker. Perhaps the brand of canny moral exuberance that Gung Ho finally prescribes is available these days only to Presidents, evangelists and coaches in the N.C.A.A. Final Four. On the big screen it seems suffocatingly smug...