Word: split
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high drama--the only actor displaying any great range is newcomer Tony Goldwyn as Sam's friend Carl Brunner. He looks and acts like a sinister Eddie Haskell. He sweats and panics; he stammers and looks wounded; he seems solicitous, seductive, then murderous. He handles his split-second emotional shifts well, though he shouldn't have to handle them...
Alia's modest reforms seem to have split the 53-member Central Committee of the ruling party. Many Western diplomats believe a strong conservative faction has grown up around Hoxha's widow Nexhmije, supported by the Sigurimi, Albania's much feared secret police force. Anxious to slow if not halt the reforms, the conservatives may even have sought to oust Alia...
None of that happened. Instead, it appeared that Gorbachev would continue to preside over the party -- but one shifting to the right under his feet. A dramatic split, with the progressives breaking away to found an opposition party of their own, seemed to have been postponed, although not ruled out altogether...
...steel wicket is one way to get the grapefruit-size ball through the narrow hoop, anchored an unforgiving 9 in. into the ground with a clearance of one-sixteenth of an inch. A bewildering array of possible shots -- the simple roquet (a straightforward hit), the croquet (a split shot) and others, like the bisque, the take-off, pass roll, cut rush and cannon, that are too intricate to describe -- must be calculated a dozen moves in advance if a player is to peg out for a finish against a single stake in the center of the lawn. It helps...
...Hopkins is an engaging and comic as Guy, Chrissy's gay neighbor. He displays marvelous range in the role making split-second shifts from solicitousness to viciousness...