Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Remember the scene in "Annie Hall" where Woody Allen sneaks away from the New York literary-scene bash to watch the Knick game? His soon-to-be-ex-wife discovers him watching TV and demands to know what's so fascinating about "a bunch of pituitary cases trying to stuff a ball through a hoop...
There are very few Harvard basketball players who could possibly be mistaken for pituitary cases, but the underlying question remains: What's so fascinating about a bunch of bowlegged guys trying to stuff a ball through a hoop...
...deftly sidestepped Glenn's broadsides, while Glenn has been less dexterous dodging Mondale's jabs. Glenn is still fuzzy as a candidate-"there is no meat on his bones," says a Democratic politician in Georgia-and his campaign organization has started slowly. Even The Right Stuff, a movie glorifying Glenn's role in the space program, is less than a sensation at the box office...
...culture: the image of journalism has shifted in movies from the diligent crusading in All the President's Men to the reckless destruction of people's lives in Absence of Malice, the corrupting collaboration with Nicaraguan revolutionaries in Under Fire and the intrusive buffoonery in The Right Stuff...
...exaggeration of plays and pictures that try to catch showfolk off guard, offstage. Or as a fairly acute study of the master-servant relationship. Or simply as an excuse to give two splendid actors (Tom Courtenay as the title figure, Albert Finney as Sir) a chance to strut their stuff...