Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Given this unforgiving history, something strange and profoundly un- Democratic is happening with the coronation of Michael Dukakis in Atlanta this week. After rending themselves apart for two decades, the Democrats have now come as close as they ever do to party harmony. There is nervousness, to be sure, over...
The Democrats come to Atlanta convinced -- after 20 years in the wilderness -- that they have finally achieved wisdom through suffering. Unlike earlier defeats, there was something particularly chastening about 1984. Walter Mondale was the candidate of the party establishment who was nominated at a well-choreographed convention -- and still he...
Would-be action stars need a sophisticated support system, and De Niro has lucked into a lulu. He plays Jack Walsh, an ex-Chicago cop who is now earning a perilous living in Los Angeles as a bounty hunter, returning bail jumpers to their bondsmen. It looks like an easy...
Like the other players, Grodin gives a nicely calibrated performance as the itch his captor cannot afford to scratch too vigorously. But it is De Niro's work that redeems an inherently improbable plot. He handles guns, quips and tight spots with the requisite elan. He brings something else to...
On Nov. 27, 1909, a famous American author temporarily staying in Paris wrote a note to the local correspondent for the Times of London: "Cher ami -- Can you arrange, some day next week -- before Wednesday -- to bring, or send, me such fragments of correspondence as still exist?" The writer continues...