The most impressive thing about Craig Brewer's remake of "Footloose" — the 1984 Kevin Bacon movie with the Kenny Loggins theme song that will now be stuck in my cranium for another 27 years — is that it handles its shaky, shopworn premise with sensitivity and conviction.
And it did have its shaky moments today.
Then they will say that if Greece wants to stay in the euro and wants ECB support for its shaky banks, it has to accept the terms set by its creditors, perhaps with some minor modifications.
It has moved on from its shaky start and transformed into a brilliant kind of Poundland Game of Thrones.
Oregon did have an excuse for its shaky performance against Washington State, but it wasn't voiced.
He explained that "if you're a Gilliam junkie, as I am, you go with it, even when the script loses its shaky hold on coherence".
Just as the Justice Department rounded up some 1,000 alleged Sept. 11 suspects and failed to indict a single one of them for terrorist activity, so it has made a big show of its shaky Andersen conviction while failing to indict a single Enron executive or individual Andersen accountant.
The social network took a big hit to its public image from its shaky IPO as some people though it conned investors by setting such a high price.
Still working to stabilize its shaky finances, the Enron Corporation said yesterday that it planned to sell assets, with a total book value of more than $8 billion, that executives say have produced dismal returns.
Sure, it was easy to mock the show for its shaky sets, occasionally bonkers plotlines (especially as the years went by) and cheesy theme tune, but not only was it highly entertaining, it was pretty radical television in its day and certainly feminist in its themes.
And its shaky standing on this new terrain leaves it open to criticism both for doing too much and for doing too little, too late.From the outset of the crisis the central bank has conducted a discreet slow-motion rescue of banks in ailing economies like Greece and Ireland, which were being bled dry by capital flight and became more and more reliant on liquidity from the ECB.
