Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baseball has served as a monument of consistency. Consistency breeds tradition. And tradition breeds devotion. It has changed very little over the last century. But now, salary escalation, free agent compensation, the infamous strike and those sophisticated electronic scoreboards are said by some to have begun to threaten baseball's purity. So people begin to complain about the sport as a whole...
...otherwise amorphous crowd Steer clear, take a peek, then maybe chance another look, but don't gawk-everyone reacts the same way. Yet it doesn't take more than a few peeks to realize there's more to this crowd than roughness. The striking punks aren't trying to threaten--rather, their severe looks and loud music are a desperate effort to impress the hurried passersby, to get more attention that the litter skittering past their army boots...
...rival groups taunt and threaten each other; once in a while they rumble; sometimes a flare of gang anger can lead to sudden death. One such incident sends two greasers, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and Johnny (Ralph Macchio), on a trek away from Tulsa to live on the lam and find new ways of being brave and getting hurt. Another greaser, Dallas (Matt Dillon), provides a role model for sexy self-destruction. The bleak moral of Francis Coppola's movie, based on an S.E. Hinton novel that has sold 4 million copies in the U.S., is that...
...fully inhabits the richer characterization of Jackson. His initially laid-back approach and wry humor conceal the psychic turmoil beneath his surface. Against Michael Anania's stark, hospital-green set. Montgomery delivers Jackson's graphic descriptions of horrific war scenes in a voice which goes flat whenever his emotions threaten to take over. His face becomes an artistic canvas, simultaneously evoking the moral desolation of a Hopper cityscape and the pain of a Munch woodcut. His continual taking of breathmints suggests that nothing can serve as a palliative for getting the horrible taste out of his heart and soul...
...jeopardize development efforts in these countries, force cancellation of projects (thus alienating special interest groups), reduce the availability of imported goods, increase unemployment, and in general create social, economic and political tensions of the kind that preceded and indeed contributed to the revolution in Iran. Such tensions not only threaten the domestic stability of these countries, creating conditions for upheavals that could interrupt oil supplies, but could even turn one oil exporting country against another, as has been the case in the Iran-Iraq war. At the very least, sharply falling oil revenues today and in the next few years...