Word: woven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largely irrelevant allusions remember that David Smith made his sculpture by piecing together already recognizable objects and proved that sculpture needed to be no more than the sum of its pre-formed parts. Likewise, Better Off Dead tosses on the screen a collection of objets trouves from past TSFs, woven together in a style that both draws on early TSF work (cf: Risky Business, Hot Dog) and yet sculpts a unique and, I believe, ultimately transcendent vision...
Nowhere is that sentiment more dramatically highlighted than along the southern border, where illegal immigration is deeply woven into the local fabric. Some 3,000 U.S. border patrol agents maintain the southern frontier, yet INS officials admit that with bolstered forces the U.S. could significantly reduce the illegal traffic. Despite its length, much of the U.S.-Mexican border is blocked by huge expanses of desert and mountainous terrain. The bulk of illegal traffic centers on only about seven crossings; an estimated 60% of all illegals enter the U.S. near the cities of Chula Vista, Calif., and El Paso, Texas. Says...
...Nazi hunters from Israel and other countries had crisscrossed Europe and much of South America trying to track down the elusive "Angel of Death." Was the hunt finally about to end? Or would the searchers discover that they had been duped in a giant hoax, lured into an ingeniously woven web of disinformation, implying that Mengele, a man with a $3.4 million reward on his head, might still be at large...
Reeves has woven a good murder mystery, but Doublin Thomas is also extravagant and funny in a black comic way. When Theron, his nose brutally broken by his ex-wife's boyfriend, goes to bed with his ex-wife, Reeves's description both funny and morbid...
Even before Americans began cutting back, the U.S. was temperate about alcohol, at least by comparison with many other nations where drinking is deeply woven into the fabric of social life. Changes now are also visible abroad. Thanks to a government sobriety pitch and a burgeoning fitness trend, in 1984 French consumption of table wine was down 4% from the year before. Diabolo Menthe (mint-flavored fizzy lemonade) and Brut de Pomme (a cider) are the latest nonalcoholic quaffs at cafes. "People used to drink wine with their meals as a matter of course," Claude Vilain, of France's Committee...