Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaves the seductive on the chopping block, but the audience is lost to self-congratulation. "We're not all here," one particularly groomed young man confided to a companion while stumbling up the side at intermission. "We made it through the first act which"-- punning in spite of himself?--"is better than last year." Observers, noting the queasy rush toward the bathrooms, doubtless agreed. But the lure of the magnums proved difficult to resist; although the lights dimmed and then flicked frantically, hundreds of champagne-soaked feet remained planted firmly in the crowded lobby...
...flight to Mexico," Wynn recalls, "John Paul told me that he planned to visit the U.S., the first time this had been revealed. On subsequent trips, he gave me meaty answers about keeping priests out of politics and on his plans to visit Poland in 1983 in spite of the country's state of martial...
...articulate assurance of a stand-up comic. Hutton is just as fine in a role that demands--and gets --caged heat, the taste of a soul gone sour, sanctity imploding into rage. He and Penn are the only compelling reasons to see a film that is oddly engrossing in spite of itself...
...spite of the two donations, Rosovsky, who is orchestrating the program's fundraising effort, said that it is "really in the planning stage" still...
...searching for a modern Dover Beach, it might help to pause first at Arnold's. What must have been, in Arnold's time, an attractively hectic seaside resort and sailing port seems strangely lifeless now, in spite of the fact that Dover remains one of the largest passenger ports in the world. Huge, squat ferries chug efficiently and frequently between Dover and Calais. Travelers walk a few steps from a train to a boat and are off. The ease and speed with which a Channel crossing is now done may have deprived Dover of its 19th century character, except...