Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Colored dots also fill the screen as the final credits roll for Being There, for which director Hal Ashby has coaxed terrific performances from Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine. These dots are tiny in contrast to those on the "filler" reel before Electric; they form the image of a gigantic color TV on the blink. This spectrum of static, infuriating when it appears on the 19-inch Sony in the den, seems almost beautiful, an electric Jackson Pollock or Gene Davis gone haywire on this enormous cinema canvas. The Being There audience stays until the last credit has disappeared over...
...simple words about his garden are the concise metaphorical epigrams of an oddly innocent genius. Being There elegantly carries this joke as far as it will go, until the president has quoted Gardiner in a speech, until MacLaine falls obsessively in love with him, until, in the film's final sequence, Douglas' cronies consider Gardiner as a candidate for the presidency...
...dreams of an upset died quickly as the Tigers (ranked seventh in the country) rammed two shots past Lau in the first 34 seconds of the final period and never looked back. Appropriately enough, the icemen were then snowed in for four hours at Denver airport before flying home...
However, several scientists on the committee stressed yesterday that it had reached no final conclusions and was still looking into number of explanations, including the possibility that the satellite observed a disintegrating meteorite or flaking of the satellite itself...
Cornbread Maxwell leads some place called the University of North Carolina-Charlotte to the NCAA final four and seems to have fun doing...