Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yekaterina ("Auntie Katya"), a 90-year-old in a faded woolen coat and thick brown head scarf, carrying a bag of apples: "No, dear, my family didn't discuss the death when they came home; they were all very tired, so they just went to bed. Chernenko? Oh, we all have to die. They all die, and yet I live on. I'll always have bread. Why do you ask, dear? Was he a relative of yours...
...Moonlighting re-creates the madcap mood of those films with the help of two ingratiating stars. Cybill Shepherd as Maddie not only looks wonderful but proves to be an assured and ; appealing light comedian. As her partner in crime solving, Bruce Willis is more than her match. With his thick-necked macho charm, Willis brings a Bill Murray-esque tone of put-on to the witty patter. The show's dialogue is possibly the fastest on TV, the stories are briskly paced and unobtrusive, and Shepherd gets lots of loving close-ups. Moonlighting is a snazzy entry that deserves...
...President's intelligence report, a thick black notebook with gold lettering that is delivered to the Oval Office at 9:30 a.m. every working day, single lines about Gorbachev grew to paragraphs, and head shots became full- length photographs of a well-tailored, energetic man. Reagan took notice, knowing that Konstantin Chernenko would be dead sooner than later. Gorbachev's good-humored outing in Britain last December with his fur-clad, stylish wife provided plenty of new material. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stored up a lot of impressions from her 3 1/2 hours of meetings with Gorbachev, and she carried...
...this all sounds like pretty horrible stuff out of which to make a light comedy, but Function is--if anything--too tame. Like all British comedy, the pace of this film seems as thick and trudging as cold plum pudding. Bennett spends the first half hour erecting the framework of setting and plot within which his characters work An American used to getting his hamour in rapid-fire bursts can find this very tedious indeed...
...afternoon in the middle of the Games last year, a taxi driver was asked to take a first-time visitor to one of Sarajevo's historical sites. He drove around the city and the hillsides above for more than three enthusiastic hours, then took her to his home for thick, black coffee with his family. On returning to the press village, he refused payment. At the end of a visit this year, another taxi pulled up to the modern Butmir Airport entrance, where the fare was paid. Gratefully a tip was offered, but the driver declined...