Word: plating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black background, no sound: "Oh, Christ," you think--"not another American Bergman." Throughout, Redford blunders like the typical autodidact, smothering whatever intuitions he might have about film with a congeries of tony cliches: an aerial shot of a breakfast table, for example, or a shot of a license plate as the family car pulls into the garage...
...mother's characterization is the biggest problem with Sargent's screenplay, but not the only one. He and Redford try to work with symbols--the silver napkin rings, a doorbell, a lack of pets in the house, a broken plate--details that fail to accumulate, leaving a mess. It's all too obvious; just so the dialogue...
...Royals tallied first. Amos Otis, in his first appearance at the plate in a World Series, knocked rookie Bob Walk's offering over the left field fence with none out in the second inning, bringing in catcher Darrell Porter who had walked, and giving Kasas City a 2-0 lead...
...Phils continued to roll in the fourth when N.L. Championship Series MVP Manny Trillo singled and advanced on a wild pitch. When Boone tallied his second two-bagger of the night, Trillo crossed the plate with Phils' sixth...
...legal observers seem prepared to bet next Sunday's collection plate that the court will tamper with the church's tax status. But Lawrence Lader, president of the plaintiff Abortion Rights Mobilization, suggests that the suit could have a restraining effect anyway. As Lader puts it, "I hope this frightens people enough to make them obey the law." More sobering than the suit, perhaps, were the results at the ballot box: Frank, Shannon and McGovern all won their primaries...