Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems were wrenching because academia and industry are fundamentally incompatible. Academics are concerned with the search for truth, no matter how irrelevant the subject may appear to be. Industry focuses on applied research, on developing a useful product and rushing it to market. Professors depend on openness of communication, on sharing news of discoveries to further the advancement of knowledge and research. Industry relies on secrecy, on keeping information about products and processes from competitors...
Like water running over stone, the novels of Aharon Appelfeld slowly make a deep impression. Badenheim 1939 (1980), The Age of Wonders (1982), To the Land of the Cattails (1986) are imperceptibly abrasive, patient and stubborn in their scourings. Appelfeld's recurring subject is daily life just before and after Hitler's war against the Jews. The central crimes of the period need no enhancement, having been passed directly into the stream of conscience by the unadorned testimony of the survivors...
...P.I.O. is accused of engaging in nothing worse than propaganda. Far from even endorsing terrorism, its chief function has been to attempt to change the subject. Its staff was entirely made up of U.S. citizens and legal residents. It was registered as a foreign agent, like other lobbying offices in Washington, but the honor of being designated as a foreign mission came unsolicited...
...crowd manages. Part of the problem with She's Having a Baby is the lack of old-fashioned grace in its leading performances. Bacon has yet to mature as a comic actor; he is still just a bouncing boy. It is impossible to take his grownup ambitions, therefore the subject of the movie, seriously enough to laugh at very much. McGovern, by contrast, is all pouts and whines; one could not blame her spouse if he strayed for real instead of in fantasy. Worse, Hughes' satire of suburbia is mostly as soft and comfortable as an old slipper...
Hughes also offers a thought that perhaps everyone taking up this subject ought to bear in mind. Eyeing Jake and Kristy as they wed, a foxy grandpa snaps, "Nobody matures anymore. They stay jackasses all their lives." Anyone canny enough to state that point ought to be able to make a movie that does not spend all its time trying to wriggle and giggle away from...