Word: messes
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...race next April after the first of the two rounds of voting for the presidency. "I don't want or expect to get elected," he insists, "but I want enough votes for all hell to break loose. Ideally, I'd like to create enough of a mess to provoke a crisis. What France really needs is a new constitution that distributes power more evenly instead of making the President a virtual monarch." That point has been seriously argued by some pundits. A few more such remarks and Coluche could begin sounding like a real politician...
...line of dialogue as she has with the curve of an angora sweater. Only Fonda succumbs: she plays her character like a cross between Barbarella and Barbie doll. But that is Higgins' way. He wants both to leer and to lecture. Nine to Five is a vile mess, but it may find its audience -the one desperate for movie comedy, the one that has made Airplane! and Private Benjamin two of the year's top-grossing films. Some people will go anywhere for a laugh, and Higgins will go to any lengths to get them...
...clip the scenes in Lulu down to make the thing manageable, you change the play from dramatic to narrative form-which, today, is film. The microphones let the actors be low-key. If you play the hysteria, you'll have one screaming, fucking mess for three hours...
...concentrate on organizing instead of spending itself on a series of local skirmishes. He is also worried that the union may be overplaying its hand. As he told workers in Warsaw last week, with an unmistakable warning about the ominous possibility of Soviet intervention, "It will be a great mess if we go on strike . . . Let us not forget that tanks and rockets could be the reply...
...plastic bags all broke and made a bigger mess than the quake," he said...