Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skier is crouching. The rear ski rudders the front one into the turns necessary for steep downhill flights. One aficionado calls it "genuflecting on the run." A new generation of skis, slightly wider than the usual touring model and metal-edged for downhill curve cutting, is doing a brisk business in sports shops. Telemarking classes have become standard fare at the larger touring centers. There are even the first North American Telemark Championships in the offing. They will be held this March in Aspen. Says Suzanne Hogan, 32, a self-described ski bum and waitress at the Home Ranch: "Telemarking...
...late, the pace of the "death trade" has quickened ominously, going from brisk to frenetic. Repudiating the go-slow policies and moral assessment processes of the Carter Administration. Reagan and Co have made arms sales not merely a part of their foreign policy, but the hallmark of it. This year between $25 billion and $30 billion in weaponry will change hands--a massive increase over last year. Considering that among our clients are El Salvador, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Chile and the Philippines, it appears that America is as far as ever from being the "arsenal of democracy." It is simply...
...blue tape. There they confront the anesthetizing smile of Nixonian bureaucracy. It is also the place where the movie begins lumbering to a halt, elaborating the obvious with political ironies that stick their thumb in the viewer's eye. A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies. Spacek and Lemmon, an appealing sweet-and-sour combo, sink in the swamp of good intentions. Perhaps Costa-Gavras should jump back on the locomotive of melodrama. When he stands still, he builds...
According to one theory, Wood intended to go off in the dinghy, to be alone and breathe the brisk Pacific night. Whiting spent the night after the accident aboard the Splendour and struck upon an alternative theory: maybe Wood, kept awake by the sound of Valiant banging against the hull in the breeze, slipped overboard while trying to move the dinghy to the yacht's leeward side...
Until the first climatic moments, the brisk plot and dialogue at least carry the audience along. But a swift downhill progression ensues, virtually eliminating all dramatic tension. When the ignorant Lutiebelle, having passed herself off as Cousin Bea, mistakenly signs a receipt for the $500 with her own name instead of Bea's--a costly gaffe to Purlie's dreams--the actors don't play the moment wrong; they simply don't play it at all. Charron glances at the check, looks at his son, and says, "Charlie get the sheriff" without so much as blinking...