Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frank Sinatra. The rest of the company's product line is less impressive. Its older big cars, such as the Chrysler Cordoba and Dodge Mirada, look like forgotten orphans on the market. The small fuel-efficient Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon are now three years old; they face stiff competition from both Japanese imports and new American cars like the Ford Escort...
Bret has established ten Croissanteries and plans to open ten more next year. He already faces stiff competition from at least five other would-be top-of-the-roll tycoons, notably Fashion Designer Michel Axel, who owns Croissant-Show (a Franglais pun on chaud, or hot). Jean-Luc is now planning to invade the U.S. and teach burgerphiles to live by fast and fancy bread alone...
Davies, lead singer, composer and prime mover of the Kinks, has always been a jester who sings as if he enjoys a good joke, a long cry and a stiff drink, sometimes all at once. Early Davies songs such as A Well Respected Man and Dedicated Follower of Fashion were sardonic assaults on both sides of what was then called the generation gap and what now seems less like a chasm than a split but sewable seam...
...Palma's ineptitude as a writer doesn't help much. He has no sense for dialogue, and cripples the film's pace with a number of curiously inert scenes featuring stiff, unbelievable talk. Then there is a long wordless sequence, a ludicrous, halting flirtation and pick-up in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum, drawn out to run 15 minutes in which DePalma (like Kubrick) deploys a steadicam camera, swimming and veering through the chambered rooms, using a subjective panning shot to cover an arc of space that the character, in fact, could take in at a glance. (The device...
Without his self-lacerating venom, Jimmy Porter (Malcolm McDowell) would be an intolerable bully. As it is, he humiliates his upper-class wife Alison (Lisa Banes), who hides behind a stiff upper lip and an ironing board. He hectors his live-in friend Cliff (Raymond Hardie), with whom he has some sort of male-bonding kinship. And he browbeats his actress mistress Helena (Fran Brill), who moves in when Alison leaves...