Word: squirm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Love Boat connection. In a bizarre show of life panting after artifice, passengers scramble aboard the cruise ships with expectations that their hours aboard will replicate the determinedly fatuous ABC-TV series, in which two or three romances seem to occur per nautical knot and (old tars squirm again) Hollywood pretty-kins impersonate the ship's crew. The emcees sprinkle their repartee with Love Boat jokes ("The captain can marry you on board. Every marriage is good for four days"). The Los Angeles-based Princess ships, on which Love Boat sequences are filmed twice a year, are booked months...
...leaders of Solidarity in Poland [Dec. 29]. With the Soviets threatening their homeland more and more each day, they have stood calmly defiant in support of their ideals and their legitimate demands for a free union system. Their message to Moscow is not only making the Soviets squirm, but is also informing anticapitalist idealists right here in the U.S. that Communism is not working...
French Director Maurice Pialat sits behind his camera like a bacteriologist at his microscope, waiting patiently for his subjects to squirm to life. He does not argue or judge; he observes and classifies. In 13 years he has made but five films, each dissecting the lives of the French working class at a crisis point: the onset of adolescence, the breakup of a marriage, the end of a life. His best film, The Mouth Agape (1974), traced a woman's slow, painful death and its effect on her husband and her son. The film was slow and painful...
...that continues throughout the evening. After the third or fourth "nothing to be done," or "we're waiting for Godot," we feel an incredible urge to escape. But Beckett won't let us get away that easily. Godot is three hours of mental torment; characters lisp absurdities while we squirm in our chairs, bothered as much by the play as much as by this production...