Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discover that what Arnold Beckoff wants--a career, a home, a person to share it with is no different from what everyone seeks. With sharp wit and a touch of pathos. Fierstein can appeal to both gay and straight audiences as he openly reveals how similar are the problems and desires of both worlds and how the worlds are not nearly as far apart as they might superficially seem to be. Arnold is a nightclub drag queen who falls in love, loses his lover to a woman, wants to raise a child, and has to cope with a nagging Jewish...
...declared contenders for the job, all conservatives, are Robert Dole of Kansas, Richard Lugar of Stevens: hot temper Indiana, Ted Stevens of Alaska, James McClure of Idaho and Pete Domenici of New Mexico. Dole is the front runner. Once known chiefly for his astringent wit and confident, almost arrogant intelligence, the three-term Senator in recent years has played a more statesmanlike role. "I'm sort of a consensus builder," he says. To the consternation of the Reagan Administration, he has pushed for tax hikes along with spending reductions as the only way to make a sizable dent...
...Saxon tribes in England cut their silver pennies into two. The halfpenny (pronounced hay-penny) was first minted in 1279. It went on to become a symbol of penuriousness. In Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, Costard insults an acquaintance for his "halfpenny purse of wit." Now, because of inflation, the tiny (approximately ⅝in.) coin costs more to make than its value of 6?. Last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the halfpenny will not be recognized as legal tender after this year...
...cement-jawed superhero does battle against an evil imperial foe and uses wit, grit and brute force to win the day and make people feel good about their country. This fantasy of an all-righteous America fills movie theaters even as it fuels presidential elections. Who is Indiana Jones if not the movie-serial avatar of White House Reagan, leaping up from near fatal assaults with a wave and a joke? Who is Superman if not the Krypton Gipper, fighting for truth, justice and voluntary school prayer? At the end of a campaign year that played like one long half...
...pair seem to spend most of the picture either searching for each other through crowded trains (they ride the same commuter line into New York City) or waiting around the station or on street corners. The suspense, for the viewer, is not exactly killing. Neither is the wit of the dialogue that Writer Michael Cristofer has concocted for the lovers on the rare occasions when they meet. It generally consists of inarticulate expressions of desire and feeble excuses for not consummating it. In this they may be wise, since neither of their spouses is presented as anything but good-natured...