Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sort of electoral verdict that sitting Presidents dread. In balloting that is certain to complicate the life of Argentine President Raul Alfonsin between now and the end of his six-year term in 1989, the opposition Peronists captured 16 of the 21 governorships at stake and swept away the ruling Radical Civic Union's absolute majority in the 254-seat lower house of Congress. The Radicals now hold 117 seats, the Peronists an unnerving...
...this is the artistry that conceals artlessness. Sayles is reluctant to juice up the drama; maybe he's above such Hollywood devices. Though he can locate the dread gracelessness of real carnage in the film's climactic gunfight, the rest of the movie is lumbering as well. He pits a few good men against corporate Evil, then stereotypes their sanctity. Joe may be attracted to Elma, but the pacifist in him would never show lust: he doesn't do widows. And by the time the noble blacks start harmonizing with the noble Italians, you may be ready to cheer...
...Memphis Record is full of triumph and dread. It is saturated with Presley's power and baptized with his loneliness. "He tried not to show it," Phillips recalled, "but he felt so inferior. Presley probably innately was the most introverted person that ((ever)) came into that studio. He didn't play with bands. He didn't go to this little club and pick and grin. All he did was set with his guitar on the side of his bed at home. I don't think he even played on the front porch." He sang out and reached out, but, after...
...next to a sprawling Viet Cong corpse, pays ironic tribute to the enemy: "After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna miss not havin' anybody around worth shootin'." Later, when he picks off a couple of V.C. like fairground ducks, his face creases in a smile of dread...
...irony, of course, is that Reagan was elected to the presidency promising to overcome the often paralyzing effects of such a national state of mind and "get America moving again." But a renewed skepticism about public figures, be they political or religious leaders, need not be something to dread. In fact, it is something to be desired, a basic tenet of any truly democratic democratic theory...