Word: breathlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...banal and what is distinctive in her findings and her arguments. There are also problems that undermine reader confidence. Early on Sheehy writes, "Did Gorbachev change the world or did the world change him? I took as my premise the second interpretation." So how come the title of her breathless book is The Man Who Changed the World...
...breathless silence falls on the packed New Delhi movie hall that is showing the Hindi film Hum Se Na Takrana (Don't Confront Me). As the predominantly male audience watches transfixed, a scene shows two lusty sons of a rich landlord cornering a pretty, well-endowed maid in their plush bedroom. "Let me go," she implores, but the men's hands move toward her writhing body. The camera heightens the suggestion of what is to come without allowing the scene to become graphic; there is no nudity, but there is plenty of screaming and leering. When the deed is done...
...Breathless Mahoney spends the entire two hours of the film getting her ass slapped, her face slapped and her sultry kisses pushed aside by the ice man, Dick Tracy. She spends the rest of her air-time stupidly singing the backdrop to this music video of a movie...
...careers. Sitting in a car outside a warehouse in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, the men were looking for Huan ("Danny") Teng, 38, a Taiwanese believed to be one of America's kingpins of drug paraphernalia. They never found Teng, but what they discovered inside the building left them breathless. It was a vast, dungeon- like factory filled with machines for injecting, cooling and grinding plastic. Three Chinese workers in ragged garb glanced at their visitors just once before getting back to the business at hand: running an around-the-clock assembly line capable of producing 2 million crack vials...
...back, and judging from the hordes of paparazzi trailing chimplike behind her at Cannes, there's a breathless public somewhere waiting for her next film. Now maybe they'll finally release her 1986 epic, Brenda Starr...