Word: screen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performances are in perfect high pitch. Cher and her screen sisters all catch the edge of flinty, frantic resilience; these three could bewitch any prospective devil. There are nifty turns from Veronica Cartwright (as the local prude) and Helen Lloyd Breed (as a sprightly oldster). Then there's Nicholson. Well! He might have been rehearsing for this role ever since The Shining. If he was over the top there, he is stratospheric here. He is a beast on two legs, grunting, slavering, pawing anyone, and never mind the scratches. Does Jack stink like Daryl? No, he is gloriously rank. Sulfuric...
DIED. Elizabeth Hartman, 45, high-strung, red-haired actress of stage and screen who won quick fame in 1966 with an Academy Award nomination for her role in the film A Patch of Blue and subsequently co-starred in The Group (1966), The Fixer (1968) and Walking Tall (1973), as well as a 1969 Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town; in an apparent suicide leap from her fifth-floor apartment; in Pittsburgh. Hartman was an outpatient of a Pittsburgh psychiatric hospital, where she was being treated for depression that reportedly stemmed from the decline of her acting career...
...emotions. The Fed chairman has to have the capacity for forthright evasion and controlled obfuscation, and Alan is very good at that. ((Former Chairman)) Arthur Burns puffed on a pipe. Volcker puffed on cigars. Alan does not smoke, but when required, he can set up a nice smoke screen with words...
...Tibet at the age of four, used to stand on the roof of his palace and wistfully gaze through a telescope at the other little boys playing in the streets of Lhasa; the British rulers faithfully follow the trials of everyday drudges on the local soap opera Crossroads. The screen that separates us from royals is, after all, a two-way illusion. When the Queen Mother decided once to drop in on a typical French bistro to dine in the company of ordinary folk, her security-conscious host promptly filled the place with policemen dressed up to look like ordinary...
...Soviet Union to reduce intermediate-range nuclear missiles. There will be vetoes, and Reagan may still have to order the fleet here and there in the Persian Gulf, acts of institutional power. But the crusade is almost winded, the caravan dispersing. The great surges of political energy, the wide-screen visions that moved America, are headed for the memoirs. "Let's face it," mused one dedicated partisan about the last year of the Reagan Revolution, "not many people are going to be interested after the first vote." That comes in Iowa Feb. 8, 1988, just eight months away. The nation...