Word: staticity
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...heart attack; in Kingston, N.J. Despite drafting speeches for Ike's 1952 and 1956 campaigns and working from 1968 to 1970 for Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Hughes saw himself as a "dissident Democrat." In America the Vincible (1959), he called the Eisenhower Administration's foreign policies "static, timid, vacillating and unrealistic," thus severing his personal relationship with the President. With The Ordeal of Power: A Political Memoir of the Eisenhower Years (1963), he became one of the first White House aides to report on the behind-the-scenes workings of an Administration...
Jack's down the street on Mass Ave.. leans a little bit more toward the middle of the road and attracts more blown-dried hair. Seating is even more limited, and the sound varies from fuzzy to static. The door man at Jack's is often lentent with IDs, and this is key in a state where you have to be 20 to drink legally. (Keep this criterian in mind before setting off for some highly recommended saloon on the other side of Boston...
...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...