Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cast in the "American" style, but darkened by German guilt feelings about the country's recent past, the film becomes a kind of German Vietnam movie. But unlike Fasbinder (in The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lili Marleen), Schloendorff (in The Tin Drum), and Syberberg (in Our Hitler), director Wolfgang Petersen avoids discussing the complexities of the political, psychological, and cultural roots of the "German catastrophe" and presents, instead, a soldier's-eye view of the war. These boys do not see the battle as the culmination of Romanticism and Wagner or as the result of contradictions of the petty...
...sudden. Reese ignities. Zap. He's hit one too many balls into the tin, and he's completely fed up. No way is this arrogant, snotty kid going to beat him. He screws up his forehead in fury, his eyes flame, his face turns beet red. Not particularly fast, he somehow starts to run down every shot. Not smooth or aesthetically appealing to watch, he somehow knocks shots just out of Benello's reach. By the time Reese has racked up the next three games, his opponent has fled the court and charged through the crowd of spectators with...
...Compared with earlier days, there is less camaraderie and pack journalism, there are fewer collective safaris. The competition often borders on frenzy. The TV networks are under pressure to produce bang-bang. "Bang-bang," explains one network TV producer, "is the hook that gets it into the tin. A massacre will do it also." But the army and the guerrillas are not always cooperative. At times there is no bang-bang-at least the networks and still photographers can't find any, and it isn't for want of trying...
...number one survived many questionable let calls and a late rally by her opponent before putting her away. Up 2-0. Hulbert squandered several match points in the third game, allowing Kelso to force a fourth stanza. The seesaw final game ended when a Kelso forehand hit the tin, giving Hulbert the game, 18-17, the match, and a 1982 collegiate ranking of third...
...market showdown could come this week when speculators must deliver tin contracts that they have sold. Earlier this month, the London Metal Exchange eased its financial requirements, limiting he amount of money traders can lose. If the speculators are forced to liquidate more of their holdings, however, the Malaysians will have an opportunity to buy additional tin. The larger questions that remain unanswered are whether Malaysia and the other major producers can maintain an artificially high price for tin, and whether a residue of political bitterness will continue over the Reagan Administration's attempt to inject an element...