Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With 50 meters left to go at the USA/Mobil Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Indianapolis, Carl Lewis glanced over his shoulder. The view was sweet. He was demolishing an Olympic-caliber field in the 200-meter sprint, and he was doing it at a world-record pace. Then, a wide smile cracking his chiseled features, Lewis tossed away the record by throwing his arms into the muggy night air ten yards before the finish. The crowd of nearly 11,000 roared in delight at the gesture...
...whether Michelangelo or Mailer) in a society that wants him as an entertainment but not an equal. That Greenaway made this icily sumptuous film on a $500,000 budget, and seduced winning performances from his cast, suggests that, in art if not in life, the entertainer can exact his sweet revenge...
...scenes and this group does so by making each scene equally as powerful as the others. Each actor develops his own persona, which Schnitzler has broadly classified as whore (Carolone Isenberg), soldier (Tim Banker), parlour maid (Holley Stewart), young gentleman (Benjamin Cobb), young wife (Anne Higgins), husband (Jonathan Magaril), sweet young thing (Debbie Wasser), poet (Alek Keshishian), actress (Amy Brenneman), actress (Amy Brenneman), and Count (Paul O'Brien...
...chance to put our relationship on a personal basis. We have much in common." Indeed, the meeting was so successful that Hawke felt compelled to reassure Australians that he had not become a Reaganite. Said Hawke: "Just because you saw me on the front page whispering sweet nothings in Ronald's ear, you shouldn't assume that means an identity of view on all things...
...vows concocted for those weddings seem period pieces now. They were oppressively poetic, gushily confessional. They were sweet and intimate and profound and occasionally metaphysical, like a Hallmark card. They were illuminated by moonbeams of Kahlil Gibran ("Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone") and drenched with fragrances of Rod McKuen. At one wedding of the time, the bridegroom rhapsodized: "It is therefore our glorious and divine purpose to fly mountains, to sow petalscent. . . to glorify glory, to love with love." His bride answered: "We hereby commit ourselves to a serenity more...