Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan also was mistaken about a CIA manual giving advice to contra guerrillas battling the Sandinista government of Nicaragua on how to assassinate Sandinista officials, hire "criminals" to kill contras who would then be presented as martyrs, and stir up mob violence. The President said the manual had been written by a CIA contract employee "in Nicaragua" (he hastily corrected himself to say "in that area," meaning Central America) and censored in Washington, but "some way or other" about a dozen copies with the offending passages got out to the contras. He wrongly remembered what briefers had told him just...
...Marsden arrived on the scene as a person interested in comets," Gingerich recalls. "At the time, there was a bright comet which caused an enormous stir, and he was on deck to help out. At that time I felt it was reasonable for him to take over." Gingerich remained on hand as an associate director...
Blanchard knows his business and his wrestlers. He says that wrestlers do well by developing strong ring personalities and by engaging in lengthy and hateful grudge matches that stir fan loyalties. Such disputes often begin on Blanchard's Monday wrestling television show and spill over into the arena, where more insults and slurs lead to head stompings and chair bashings. Not long ago, one of Blanchard's matches climaxed with a combatant dumping a large bucket of manure on his opponent's head...
Even talented junior Bambi Taylor's move with just over live minutes to play Iron the goal to the field, where she provides one of Harvard's most powerful shots couldn't stir up a Crimson rally...
Until a climax too calculated to stir the emotions, Screenwriter William D Wittliff and Director Richard Pearce navigate a careful, dogged course between tract and treacle. In this near-miss movie Shepard is once again the icon of incorruptibility who refuses to claim the center of a film. Toward the end of Country Shepard's character disappears, with little explanation, in what may be a gentlemanly bow to Jessica Lange, a flinty, landsomely wasted matriarch. Mother ones, meet Ma Joad. -By Richard Corliss...