Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Without any new additions to the plot, the pace of the movie slows down to a lugubrious, ponderous crawl. Here, Costa-Gavras has unwisely strayed from his style. His specialty is the fast-paced, linear form, where events are linked together in some exciting sequence and the movie moves forward by inertia. In Z, first the lingering fate of the seriously injured central figure, then the unexpected slant taken by the prosecutor kept the excitement up. Here, the tension dies long before the prisoners do. And the irony, predictably, becomes heavy-handed. The Latin motto "Justitia", inscribed in mosaic...
...both incarnations, he occasionally indulges a well-cultivated taste for Dubonnet, Scotch, brandy, port or stout. Even Moynihan's critics concede that his unfailing Irish wit and cheer make him a good man to take on a pub crawl...
When she tried to resist, the rapist stabbed her in the stump of her leg and knocked out a front tooth. He ripped out the phone and took her crutches and broke them before he left. She had to crawl with her one leg down the corridor of her apartment house at least 50 ft. before she found a neighbor home to summon the police...
...swim around or crawl over a log; it just puts its head against the log and keeps pushing." Currently, the silver-flecked, blond head of Georgia's former Governor can be seen pushing and pushing hard-pushing to win the Democratic Party's 1976 presidential nomination. Carter, who has been determinedly pursuing delegates since last December, is now making surprising progress...
Disgusting, repulsive, lowbrow, nauseating. I'm no Victorian, but those individuals should crawl into a hole and pull it in after them-and take TIME with them...