Word: deviousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball fanatics? For Costner, though, the improbable risk was a good career move. As Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, he played the straightest arrow in Prohibition-era Chicago and made saintliness sexy. As Tom Farrell, the cryptic intelligence officer in 1987's No Way Out, he brought devious modernity to a character right out of a '40s suspense novel. As Crash Davis, the bush-league catcher in 1988's Bull Durham, he found charm in cynicism and anchored the first hit baseball movie in a dozen years. And as Ray Kinsella in the current Field of Dreams -- the Iowa farmer...
...cannot be realised. The Soviet knight is dying inside his armour." If true, such statements and the accompanying evidence pointing out the military incompetence of the U.S.S.R. will obviously have profound effects on Western defense policies. On the other hand, the whole thing could be just another piece of devious disinformation...
...Opera. Strange people just keep piling in. In the course of a long day, Pepa runs into her lover's ex-wife, his new mistress, his son and the lad's fiancee. Plus a couple of doped-up cops and a Jehovah's Witness concierge. The film is devious enough to have speared every foreign-language prize from U.S. critics and obvious enough that Hollywood is genuflecting at Almodovar's door. "Pedro is going to become a major director," says Orion Pictures' Mike Medavoy, "either in Hollywood or wherever he decides to work...
...quick to forget all that he's done for us," says public- housing activist Kimi Gray. In racially divided Washington, white residents of comfortable neighborhoods in the city's northwest seldom stray into the areas where most black citizens dwell. Many blacks believe that whites are following a devious "plan" to regain political control of the District by embarrassing black officials. The mayor has survived by playing on that fear and, like any good political boss, distributing favors to his constituents...
...with fatal consequences for her. From that fiery shoot-out until checkmate, the contest becomes increasingly taut, vicious and engaging. At each turn, Laemmle edges closer to his goal. At every escape, Thomas becomes a little wearier, a trifle more dependent on a cast of peasants, restaurateurs, shopkeepers and devious intelligence operatives. None are so devious or inventive as he is. The most adept, of course, proves to be Quartermain, flown in to rescue the child of his brief and passionate liaison with Maria...