Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that compromise came only because the weather finally relented. After weeks of broiling heat, a breeze blew from the northwest on Friday, July 13. That weekend the delegates could get some sleep. Monday the 16th was cool. The Connecticut compromise offered by Sherman a month earlier began to seem eminently reasonable. So a somewhat amended version was agreed...
...novel on its final approach: a cautionary tale about the power of negative thinking, or, as one Alnilamist puts it, "Everything will be simple: simple and deep. There won't be anything else; only nihilism and music." Compared with the allusive qualities of the book, such statements can seem as obvious as a Goodyear blimp. But they cannot overshadow Dickey's talent for mating small details, his audacious lyric power and technical risks. At times he splits the page into two columns, the left registering the impressions of Cahill, the right a simultaneous visual sighting of events...
...that you will always be curious about the news, as long as you do not mistake the news for life. Believe it or not, he even hopes that you will always be crazy about clothes, particularly once you establish your own source of income -- fashion plate, charge plate. You seem to know the difference between vanity and style. On you high style looks good...
...general, he wishes that you see the world generously, that you take note of and rail against all the Lebanons of violence, the Africas of want, but that you also rear back and bless the whole. This is not as hard to do as it may seem. Concentrate on details, and embrace what you fear. The trick is to love the world as it is, the way a father loves a daughter, helpless and attached as he watches her stretch, bloom, rise past his tutelage to her independent, miraculous ascendancy. But you must never let go entirely, as he will...
...bogus moral dilemma and some attenuated anguish. A viewer is finally left to savor earlier delights: the dialogue's wild, desperate wit; the daring in choosing a desultory skirmish to make a point about war's pointlessness; the fine, large performances of almost every actor (Ermey and D'Onofrio seem sure shots for Oscar nominations); most important, the Olympian elegance and precision of Kubrick's filmmaking. Full Metal Jacket fails only by the standards the director demands be set for him. By normal movie standards, with whatever reservations one may entertain, the film is a technical knockout...