Word: aimlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since he eighty-sixed 007 almost two decades ago (with one aimless visit home in 1983 for Never Say Never Again), Connery has mothballed his toupee and gained a twilight twinkle. He is the movies' sexiest, most majestic older star. And yet at 58 Connery was thought too young to play Indy's father, who was originally conceived as a crotchety gent like On Golden Pond's Henry Fonda. It was Spielberg's idea to cast Connery, a decision that illuminated the film and its filming. "When Sean and Harrison arrived on the set," Spielberg recalls, "everyone got quiet...
Madness descended. Motorcycle cops jumped curbs, machines roaring over the grass in a ballet of aimless panic. The crowd on the grassy knoll looked like it had been swept with a giant scythe. The street was empty, a stark, lifeless slab of concrete that smelled of disaster. Kennedy's motorcade had been chopped in two like a luckless centipede, the front end blown to God knew where, the rear end writhing and thrashing...
...were killed. Greek police speculated that the terrorists planned to take over the vessel, bring the explosives onto the ship and turn the Poros, with 505 aboard, into a floating bomb. The gunmen on the vessel might have learned of the car explosion and decided on aimless killing instead...
...Massachusetts Miracle-Gro on the rest of the nation. Sure, these rationales are intellectually flimsy, but they gave Bush and Dukakis a steadiness that most of their rivals lacked. Jesse Jackson prospered because of the clarity of his mission, while Al Gore and Bob Dole learned the folly of aimless ambition...
...Turner, Wilson's third major work, is a sprawling ensemble piece, full of grace notes and epiphanies. It takes place in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in 1911 where the tenants are mostly drifters in work and love: they act as aimless as if newly freed, though they are much too young to have been slaves themselves. The dramatic center is Delroy Lindo's harrowing performance as the one driven character, Herald Loomis. Poor and desperate, clutching his painfully thin eleven-year-old daughter, he bursts in seeking his wife, whom he lost years before when he was taken captive...