Word: statics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Superficiality pervades the entire movie--especially because the array of relatives constitute a full spectrum of lifeless duds. Set in the early '60s, these characters are static period pieces; they seem lost in dated material, as if their horn-rimmed glasses had fogged their view of reality...
...single human relationship in this world is as important as that between the President of the United States and the man who leads the Soviet Union. They grope for an understanding of each other through 4,800 miles of political static, at once drawn together by necessity and fascination and held apart by cultural suspicion and government bureaucracy. Their personalities become summaries of nations too vast and complex to understand in the whole...
...minutes before I had planned to awake. To make matters worse, my roommate also likes to start the day with a burst of WEEI news radio. I have come to hate those monotonous traffic reports and the incessant simulated clacking of typewriters in the background. Tuesday morning, though the static aired an advertisement so intriguing that I cut through my early morning fog long enough to listen...
...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...