Word: motion
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...notion has taken hold that emphasis in communicating is impossible without the incessant use of four-letter words. Some screenwriters openly admit that they are careful not to turn in scripts that are devoid of foul language lest the classification office impose the curse of a G (general) rating. Motion-picture exhibitors have a strong preference for the R (restricted) rating, probably on the theory of forbidden fruit. Hence writers and producers have every incentive to employ tasteless language and gory scenes...
...casualness toward violence and brutality not just in entertainment but in everyday life. People are not as uncomfortable as they ought to be about the glamorization of human hurt. The ability to react instinctively to suffering seems to be atrophying. Youngsters sit transfixed in front of television or motion-picture screens, munching popcorn while human beings are battered or mutilated. Nothing is more essential in education than respect for the frailty of human beings; nothing is more characteristic of the age than mindless violence...
...dress, bad manners, bad speech, bad human relationships. The hope has to be that calculated sloppiness will run its course. Who knows, perhaps some of the hip designers may discover they can make a fortune by creating fashions that are unfrayed and that grace the human form. Similarly, motion-picture and television producers and exhibitors may realize that a substantial audience exists for something more appealing to the human eye and spirit than the sight of a human being hurled through a store-front window or tossed off a penthouse terrace. There might even be a salutary response to films...
...more interesting than the central question of whether Harry and Catherine can find true love. They are like David and Maddie of Moonlighting -- coming together, going apart, ever off balance -- but without the humor or irony. Every single movement of the two characters is chronicled, like a time-motion study. When Catherine is done preparing a meal and cleaning it up, a recurring activity, the reader is left exhausted and with dishpan hands...
...reaction to the last-minute payouts was swift and brutal, especially among Drexel creditors. One large unsecured creditor, First City Bancorp. of Texas, quickly filed a motion in federal bankruptcy court in New York City asking for an investigation. The New York Times lambasted the bonuses as a case of greed worthy of the Guinness Book of World Records and called on Drexel executives to return the dough. In Washington committees in both the House and the Senate are planning hearings this week that will explore the issue. "It may be that the payments themselves rendered Drexel insolvent," says attorney...