Word: statically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife (Mary Steenburgen) he cannot satisfy sexually. When he tries and she finds his ardor disgusting, he retorts, "How can it be? I haven't taken my clothes off yet." Allen's directorial eye finds amusement in restraint, allowing characters to wander in and out of a static frame, playing droll tricks on his own autocratic camera. Gordon Willis has shot the pastoral exteriors in delicate earth tones. In one lovely shot, Steenburgen, a backwoods madonna, reclines in the high grass and gently places a large, soft hat over her face. Camera and subject have relaxed into...
...played by Pacino) and his extended family (five kids, only one of whom is really his) never develops. The existence of an eccentric bond between adult and children remains a given throughout. Unlike the blossoming affection between Dustin Hoffman and Justin Henry in Kramer vs. Kramer, this arrangement seems static...
Named for a Muddy Waters song, the Stones departed almost immediately from the static scene in which they were born. They travelled, figuratively at first and later in person, to the United States, where they sought the gritty texture and bitter taste of the music played by American Blacks. "Blues" or "rhythm and blues"--the labels were imprecise and unimportant. When the pace picked up and the beat straightened out, it became "rock and roll." Jagger, Richards and Jones thought they would bring the real thing back to Britain. Once they got moving, they ended up bringing it back...
...thus exacerbate antipapal feelings there. Militant Protestants have already marched in the streets of several British cities to protest the expected visit. While a go decision would naturally not sit well with Argentina, the planning has reached such an advanced state that cancellation at this point might generate more static than it would prevent. And last week John Paul, in a general audience at St. Peter's, again appealed for a negotiated settlement in the Falklands crisis...
...President's package of and cuts, for instance, reflects his peculiarly static notion of equal opportunity, his Administration contends that the government's responsibility to defend everyone's right to attend college does not translate to a responsibility to pay for it. The evaporation of federal affirmative action codes thus represents not Administration confidence that private institutions will voluntarily seek diversity, as Rosovsky's report would suggest. Rather, it suggests a fundamentally flawed view of equality. In that version, rich and poor have equal education privileges--though the latter cannot pay-and white and Black have similarly equal rights...