Word: angels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critics do not seem to have ruffled Pfeiffer. "The pressure doesn't get to me," she insists. Somewhat defensively, she also says of her role in handling the unit managers' scandal, "I'm not the avenging angel. I'm not Joan of Arc." Her edgy employees would probably accept those statements. Trouble is, they are not quite sure yet just...
...target and is plainly scared. The elevator descends. The man sees six teen-age blacks sweeping toward him like a pack of wolves. First they literally sniff him up and down, then they urinate in a circle around him. They reek of the peppermint smell of angel dust, and they are looking for somebody to blow away, like this turkey...
...girls are led up the rock by Miranda. She is the loveliest among them. The Frinch schoolmistress compares her to a Botticelli angel as she jumps a stream and disappears between some trees, leading her classmates toward oblicion. They remove their black stockings and shoes to feel the rock on their bare feet. They fall asleep languidly on the warm rock, awaken, and drowsily walk away from the world...
Norma Rae. When Sally Fields dropped from "The Flying Nun" into Burt Reynold's lap, a teen angel was despoiled, but no one took much notice. Martin Ritt, however, kept an eye on Fields, and plucked her from the backseat of Burt's van, where she last displayed her talents--prone--in Smokey and the Bandits. In Norma Rae, Ritt allows Fields aging starlet cuteness to work for her. A sassy, kick-around mill worker, Norma Rae is a woman cashing in on the vestiges of squirrel-mouthed, cheerleader prettiness. The story is hockey, but it plays. Widowed...
Norma Rae: When Sally Fields dropped from "The Flying Nun" into Burt Reynolds lap, a teen angel was despoiled, but no one took much notice. Martin Ritt, however, kept an eye on Fields, and plucked her from the backseat of Burt's van, where she last displayed her talents--prone--in Smokey and the Bandits. In Norma Rae, Ritt allows Fields aging starlet cuteness to work for her. A sassy, kick-around mill worker, Norma Rae is a woman cashing in on the vestiges of squirrel-mouthed, cheerleader prettiness. The story is hokey, but it plays. Widowed by a beer...