Word: tenderizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promoter of the Reagan cause. At his regular breakfast last week with Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Chief Economic Adviser Murray Weidenbaum, Stockman was delighted by a birthday cake presented by Regan, his principal rival within the bureaucracy. It was decorated with 35 tiny hatchets, symbolizing Stockman's tender years and his budget-slashing accomplishments. He laughed loudly at another Regan gift: a T shirt bearing the words I AM A TEAM PLAYER on the front and TREASURY DEPARTMENT SUPPLY-SIDERS on the back...
...threatening than a few cross glares. Overabundant in tension, The Haunting of M lacks genuine fright. In the most important scenes, Marion reveals himself to be a lovesick and slightly wrathful admirer of Marianna, played with calculated flirtatiousness by Sheelagh Gilby. Indeed, in his last scenes, Marion becomes truly tender as he reaches out to Marianna, scowling jealously at those who try to prevent the match. Thomas tries to fashion a Victorian Heathcliff--a wrathful and passionate lover--from the bare bones of a ghostly glare and tragic family secret. But rather than a monster, Thomas has created a pathetic...
...balconies--recalls the days when sets were inorganic pegs on which to hang the actors, rather than metaphorical expressions of a production's point of view. But then again, this production has no point of view. Director Peter Coe brings nothing but some undignified nose-rubbing to the tender relationship between Othellow and Desdemona...
...film's equally unconvincing technical composition inspires tender sympathy for its well-meaning unprofessionalism. In order to emphasize the mental concentration and the spiritual intensity of racing, Hudson treats nearly all the running sequences--training sessions, sprinting for fun, competitions--with the old foggy slow-motion treatment, and the symbolism weighs heavily. Add to this ponderous device the dreadfully outdated technique of indicating a quick rise to fame by presenting quickly-revolving newspapers that stop twirling long enough to exhibit a banner headline, and the verdict must be: technical naivete...
...observer watched him with a kind of tender contempt. How could he-and yet why not? Nixon had been disgraced, the other two had been turned down by the electorate; all, for those few hours, were sipping again at the cup of power...