Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days or the looming threat of the new. Neither is as real as the comfortable stasis the characters inhabit during most of the film. The dissolution at the close is supposed to lead to new beginnings for the characters, as couples or as individuals. But, sadly, the abrupt shift in mood it entails leaves us with a trace of Abbie and Harry's old anomie...
...ally, the leftist Mapam group, the virtually unanimous vote for Peres seemed to unite the splintered Labor Party. Voters accepted Rabin's abdication with mixed feelings. He had been an uncertain and disappointing leader. But he was also the first sabra (native-born Israeli) to become Premier; the abrupt downfall of one of the "sons of the founders" had tragic communal overtones...
...Enough" or Straightshooter "Feel Like Making Love" interspresed with slower ballads like "Seagull" or Run With the Pack's "Silver, Blue and Gold." Bad Company hasn't really developed along radically new lines, except for theri closer meshing-together as a group and a tighter control over the abrupt transitions from one volume and rhythm intensity to another that flawed passages of their first two LP's. Great band. Popular band. Great record. Should be a popular record, too. Turn...
...Were the Soviets abrupt and even rude in their treatment...
Such pyrotechnics fizzle as often as they go off, but Berger gets steady comic mileage out of built-in absurdities. Since the detective is clearly the butt of a massive finagle, nothing he meets is what it seems to be. An apparently moronic cop nabs Wren with an abrupt display of erudition: "Did you cause that man to shuffle off his mortal coil?" In the twinkling of a transition, innocent young schoolgirls become a team of orgiastic courtesans. Even when Wren finally tracks down the villain who has been tormenting him, his deduction #151;based on impeccable evidence-is wrong...