Word: sighted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even with its frequent sight gags and sometimes offensive humor, Bad Manners offers a glimpse into an American childhood world the "Brady Bunch" et al wouldn't even allow in their outtakes. Still, the humor that might make Bad Manners more than just a fun night out with yourself disappoints in the end. Filmed in under backing, it sports an uneven quality peculiar to low-budget Hollywood. If Bobby Houston follows through with plans to offer a second with a larger budget, Bad Manners II could retain its humor and develop into the better movie it often hints...
...antagonisms it sometimes stirred, was a salutary symbol of black progress. The Democrats' historic nomination of a woman for Vice President added to the political selfesteem. The high spirits surrounding the Olympic Games struck some observers as jingoistic and ungracious. But with American athletes winning nearly everything in sight, the country was able to see itself as it liked: wholesome, powerful, a touch rowdy. Americans could celebrate as they had not done in a long time...
...trust for their Maori owners. The decade-long effort by the museum's chairman of primitive art, Douglas Newton, to bring the work to the U.S. was conspicuously worthwhile. For Americans, a walk through the Metropolitan's exhibit is a voyage of discovery, as astonishing as the sight of Maori art must have been in 1769, when Captain James Cook's Endeavour first touched New Zealand's shore. When the ship's artist, Sydney Parkinson, went inland, he marveled at the Maoris' "particular taste for carving...
...only zealots in sight are willfully credulous European tourists. "You are a people truly young," burbles one foreign girl to the powerless and paralyzed Julio. "Everyone finds happiness in your country." Padilla knows better, and after a chapter or two of this biting phantasmagoria, so do all but the most naive readers...
...SUMMER RECEDES from the British Isles, the six-month old coal strike lumbers on with no end in sight. Perhaps, in another time, winter's approach would have scared Britain's National Coal Board (NCB), the directorate of the state-owned industry, into granting concessions to the striking miners. The sight of dwindling coal in cellar bins along with the first frost on the windows would have prodded management into giving in to calls for higher wages or more paid holidays...