Word: stoking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Heartburn is now a movie, one sure to stoke controversy because of a comic tone that swerves deftly from affection to irony to flippancy to icy revenge. In its portrayal of Rachel, who needs so much love, and Mark, who wants too much sex, the film may seem to suggest that all women are fools and all men knaves. In fact, it says that nothing is sadder than enduring the death of romance, and nothing more wryly poignant than looking at it from the outside. In Heartburn (as in Kramer vs. Kramer), the "outside" is the tunnel-vision point...
...audience at some B-minus sci-fi thriller in the 1950s solemnly attended to the stilted dialogue, leaden performances and not-so-special effects. But today's cognoscenti find the dew of nostalgia on these pictures, then wink and say, "They're so bad, they're good." Smart directors stoke the trend with camp updates of the olden turkeys. In Tobe Hooper's remake of the 1953 Invaders from Mars you can see tongues burrowing into cheeks on both sides of the camera. Sometimes, though, directors can outsmart themselves. Invaders from Mars is so good at mimicking '50s mediocrity...
...industrial countries came to a happy meeting of minds last week about the direction in which interest rates should go: down. For months Treasury Secretary James Baker has been exhorting other governments to stoke their economies by lowering their rates. One reason: healthy growth in other countries will boost U.S. exports. Last week Baker got some results. The West German central bank lowered its discount rate, the amount it charges on loans to other financial institutions, from 4% to 3.5%. Japan then announced a similar cut, its second since January. Hours later, the Federal Reserve Board dropped the U.S. discount...
Varsity lightweight eights (Biglin Bowl): 1-HARVARD (bow Edd Fleming, 2-Jeff Nickel, 3-Ben Colourn, 4-Greg Williams, 5-Pat Bennell, 6-Paul Natterson, 7-Justin Kemond, stoke James Sheldon cox-Mike Philips), 5:58:2 Dartmouth 5:58:3 MIT 6 11 Junior varsity eights HARVARD (bow John Lawfor 2 Phil Talbert 3 Wally Obersmayer 4 Albert Legar 5 Scott Diugos 6 Trip Switzer 7 Bill Peterson stroke Peter Herbig, cox-Mike Mollerus) 6:11:2 Dartmouth...
...clubs stoke the Who craze by holding auctions, selling Who paraphernalia, publishing newsletters and raising money for nonprofit TV stations so they can screen the series. Fund raising for the Doctor pulled in $40,000 in 90 minutes last March for Philadelphia's PBS station...