Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...serious about something in life to be amused." As the intricate plot unravels and the couples happily unite, the laughter subsides and Finnegan declares, "We have now realized the vital importance of being earnest." Maybe he has, but it would have helped had the BSC taken a more earnest stab at this drama. Wilde wrote a charming satire that, besides entertaining, might stimulate some thought on the excessive concern of the aristocratic class with manners and decorum. Random male-female substitution does not add anything to the effectiveness of this endeavor, and overacting never does...
...Hash Bash, founded in 1972 as a radical-inspired stab at traditional moral values, helmeted police and barricaded buildings confronted the small group of students who said they came mostly "out of tradition...
...offense that kept the batmen's record spotless. Righthander Bill Larson picked up his second win of the year with more than a little help from his fielders. With one man on and nobody out in the Husky second. Allard sprinted into right-center to make a diving stab of a Jerry Lapenta line drive, saving at least...
...more and more offices do most of their work on computers, and if a personal computer can be put in a living room, why should anyone have to go to work in an office at all? The question can bring a stab of hope to anybody who spends hours every day on the San Diego Freeway or the Long Island Rail Road. Nor is "telecommuting" as unrealistic as it sounds. Futurist Jack Nilles of the University of Southern California has estimated that any home computer cardio-would soon pay for itself from savings in commuting expenses and in city office...
Mostly because it is . . . well . . . still. For a movie about a series of gory knife murders (and that had the working title Stab), it has an oddly reverential hush about it. This seems to arise less from a regard for the Hitchcock tradition than from a quiet appreciation of its own classiness. As a murdered man's psychiatrist, drawn into the investigation of his patient's death and also toward his suspiciously nervous mistress, Scheider is sober, stalwart and workmanlike, but one longs for the goofy exasperation Cary Grant used to bring to roles like this...