Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your article on black Comedian Eddie Murphy [July 11] was a shallow, superficial puff piece. You would have served your readers far better if you had chosen to analyze the reasons behind Murphy's rise to stardom. Why is he, along with Richard Pryor, finding such enormous success while serious black dramatic actors and actresses rarely work...
...social and political implications of the Revolution would be better left out, as would the character of Tom Paine, who speaks essays rather than conversation. Hanna Schygulla, as the Comtesse, has gone from the cold severity of her Fassbinder mold to a comparably fixed part of decadent and shallow seductress--melting her audiences with a look that oozes sexuality. But if her excesses are intended as some sort of comment on the monarchy, or if the excerpts of serious analysis are intended to be heeded, then Scola has produced a muddled failure. The film's frivolity, if intended...
During a brief lull in the shooting, our driver threw the Jeep into reverse and backed in drunken swerves 100 yards away from the heaviest fighting. We scrambled out into a shallow roadside ditch filled with weeds and dried cow manure and spent the next hour in intimate contact with the ground. The fighting finally died down and the contras retreated, leaving eleven dead. Four of the seven Jeeps in the convoy had suffered casualties, the three in front of us and the one immediately behind...
...coup, the country was on the brink of collapse. Now, 2½ years later, the economy is prospering and the people have confidence in the government. Evren's regime is a compromise between Western-style democracy and authoritarian rule, and is well suited to a developing country with shallow democratic roots, like Turkey. Under Evren, Turkey continues to be a dependable ally...
According to the Swedish report, the minisubs are between 32 ft. and 50 ft. long, carry a crew of two to five and are propelled in some cases by treads, in others by conventional screws. One small sub, the commission said, navigated the shallow channel into Stockholm's harbor during a visit by the U.S. fleet last September. The vessel came within one mile of King Carl XVI Gustaf's palace on an island in the center of the capital (see map). The Swedish navy also attributes the failure of the October search to the minisubs. "Sonar didn...