Word: talkathon
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...unrest that has brought their country to the brink of civil strife, many Yugoslavs had been counting on last week's meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee to shake up the national leadership and address the nation's economic miseries. What they got was a three-day Belgrade talkathon that accomplished little -- and may in fact have worsened the political crisis. The biggest loser, at least for the moment, was Slobodan Milosevic, the demagogic Serbian party leader and Yugoslavia's most charismatic politician since Josip Broz Tito, who died in 1980. Afraid of Milosevic's success in exploiting nationalistic...
...screen, for a simple reason: the significant action has occurred a dozen years before, so the entire plot must be exposition pocked with explosions of violence. Parker, an itchy director (Midnight Express, Fame) with a bang-on sense of textbook timing, occasionally tries to pump up his flashback talkathon with chase scenes that distract from the film's mood. But he has located a chic, grim style for the story. Garish, ominous colors flash vividly across his monochrome palette. The streets keep sweating rain, and clouds loom over the bayou like threats written in cigar smoke. Images of mirrors, feet...
...watching offbeat or "difficult" films on video rather than at the theater. Dianne Ghertner, of Oak Park, Ill., says she prefers to see most movies on the big screen, but enjoyed Louis Malle's critically acclaimed My Dinner with Andre at home because she could digest the two-character talkathon in small doses...
...France. Feminist Kate Millett deplored the "severe lack of representation of women" at the meeting (85 out of 350). U.S. cultural "imperialism," particularly in the form of the internationally popular TV show Dallas, was repeatedly attacked. Not a few guests foundered on the generalities and the pretension. The grandiose talkathon, hinted one American participant, mainly "reflects how many people are still willing to accept a free ticket to Paris...
...school prayer legislation, like the abortion measure, was attached to a bill raising the national debt ceiling (from $1.143 trillion to $1.29 trillion). But before the Senate could vote on school prayer, Helms and his supporters needed to muster 60 votes to invoke cloture and shut off the talkathon against the bill spearheaded by Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut...