Word: burp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...either his narration or his pain. Although he describes his own unhappiness and self-degradation with the same unsentimental gusto he might use on approaching a pot of hearty Russian cabbage soup, he never lets his explication of these problems degenerate into the murky themes of an alcoholic burp...
...sometimes wishes Forsyth could more often keep his eye on the comic point, it is also true that he finds his best material out there on the periphery, at the edge of the frame. What is a punk rocker doing in the rural highlands? Why does that motorbiker keep burp-burping through the action without explaining himself? Forsyth isn't telling. He's just laughing to himself, a shy, shrewd film maker worth bending near so you can hear what he has to say amidst the contemporary...
Carbon dioxide is a clear gas that puts the bubbles in pop and beer and makes drinkers burp. The fact that it can do as much for tired oil wells, and thereby rejuvenate them, has made CO2 one of the most promising ingredients in the U.S. energy mix. Indeed, oil firms are now sinking more than $1.5 billion into a pair of pipelines to deliver CO2 from southern Colorado to declining Texas oilfields, even though falling oil prices threaten to squeeze the ventures' profits...
Schrader aspires to nothing and succeeds masterfully. From his subconscious has come a movie that reflects the pubescence of a society whose view of sex is about as spiritual as a strawberry-flavored douche. Cat People is a reaction, a burp caused by the sexual junkfood of Hugh Hefner, erotic bakeries, and crotchless underwear. And, like belching, it provides relief though one feels obliged to say, "Excuse...
...yesterday, just about an hour and a half before taking on the Crimson. Harvard didn't waste any opportunities to gain an edge on its California opponent--between the MIT and Crimson games, the 22 Bruins were "treated" to a Lowell House dinner. (How was the food, guys? Grimace, burp, fart...