Word: swivelling
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...country its size, Nicaragua set a lot of swivel chairs spinning in the U.S. last week. The same day that three American diplomats expelled from Nicaragua landed at Washington's National Airport, 21 Nicaraguan consular officials were ordered to leave the U.S. by the Reagan Administration. That same day as well, a House committee voted to cut off covert aid to anti-Sandinista guerrillas fighting in Nicaragua and based in Honduras. On Friday, U.S. Special Envoy Richard Stone stopped in Nicaragua to meet with members of the junta and the Marxist-led Sandinista directorate. Said Stone, in Spanish...
...women, most in their mid-20s, straggle into the plush classroom. Some bear the look of their recent past--the collegiate T-shirts and knapsacks. Some sport the fashion of their professional future--the smartly tailored suits and briefcases Rob Portman joins them, settles on the green swivel seat and arranges his materials--notebook, pens, and breakfast: croissant, and a Styrofoam cup of coffee, from the bistro-cum-cafeteria, Soupcon...
...Texas. Altman borrows the best qualities from the live theatre of precisely staged movements and vocal patterns and merges them with the best potentials of the cinema--fluid-flashbacks, close-up shots and angular filming. The setting of the tacky small-town corner Five & Dime, with its plastic-covered swivel stools around the counter, the displays of cheap trinkets, and the neon-like wall displays and jukebox, never become too confining as Altman uses perpetually changing positions for the characters. His use of reflections through mirrors and dust-covered windows and different camera angles provides the movie with a vast...
...with each other. The weather runs to perverse extremes; droughts have a way of ending abruptly in floods. Nature bangs around sometimes giving melodramatic and even lunatic performances. Now, in winter, the temperature will rise to 70° F or so one day, and the next, the wind will swivel around out of Canada to bring down a "blue Norther," a deep, dry blast of almost metaphysical cold. "There's nothing between here and the North Pole but a barbed-wire fence," they tell themselves in that Texas way that can lend defiant self-congratulation to the disastrous...
...next bin over at Woolworth's, boasting enough mark-down tags to make it clear this is not the next Rubik's Cube, are a pile of half-sized plastic swivel chairs. On each there's a label, like the ones men wear at conventions that say "Hi! I'm Bob, General Consolidated (ret.)" Only these say "Hi! I'm a swivel chair." Truth in advertising and all that...