Word: keene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Great Mouse Detective a mouse chanteuse performs what may be the first tentative striptease in the Disney canon. Otherwise it's business and pleasure as usual. Keen-witted Basil of Baker Street and his colleague Dr. Dawson search for a girl mouse's father, a toymaker abducted by the evil rodent genius Professor Ratigan. The movie's scene-stealer is a peg-legged bat named Fidget, who gets laughs when someone stomps on his foot ("My only foot!"). Later Basil and Dawson are trussed up on Ratigan's killer mousetrap, a Rube Spielberg device that jump-starts the filmmakers' ingenuity...
...dolls and Eddie Murphy posters. And the Western songsters of choice are Lionel Richie and Stevie Wonder. The government-supported national radio station tried to ban Wonder, but gave up after his fans began tuning in to his songs on foreign stations. Still, it is not so keen on the final entry on Stevie's current album. Delivered in both English and the South African tribal tongue of Xhosa, the song is called It's Wrong (Apartheid...
...problems worsened. On April 18, a startled Air Force watched its once trusty Titan rocket explode at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. Lost in the fiery metallic shower was a Big Bird spy satellite, intended to keep a keen polar-orbit eye on the Soviets. The explosion was the second successive Titan 34D failure within a year, after nine perfect flights. NASA bravely tried another launch, and on May 3 was dismayed when its long-reliable Delta rocket, carrying a hurricane-spotting satellite, had to be detonated over Cape Canaveral after its main engine shut down prematurely...
...appeals to you, then you may like Short Circuit. If, on the other hand, your taste in robots runs toward the apolitical comedy of Artoo Detoo, then Director John Badham's efficient realization of a script by S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock may strike you as entirely too preachy keen. Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg are the lovers matched by the machine; Austin Pendleton and Fisher Stevens are funny as, respectively, an ambiguous enemy and the malaprop-prone friend of what is finally just a pretty good special effect...
They also seem to have a keen awareness of my wardrobe, for it is only on that one day each month that filial duty causes me to wear my mother's latest silk and sequine Polo gift that one of them jumps up in my face and demands...