Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bizarre, Berger describes the codger's funeral through the eyes of Junior, the teen-age lout: "As he watched the bronze box being lowered into the grave he could not help thinking of that little ditty that went: Your eyes fall in/ Your teeth fall out/ The worms crawl over/ Your nose and mouth. Dying was a lousy thing, and he intended to avoid it, for its inevitability seemed only theoretical to him. How did they know that you couldn't live forever? Had anybody ever tried...
...members of The Collaboration creep and crawl and slither onto the stage, swinging their arms around and shrieking like monkeys. One of them spots the microphone in the center of the stage reaches up, touches it, and screams. Then he straightens up, grabs the mike, scans the audience, and then, eyes directed up toward the heavens, says: "I've discovered comedy." And in the following two hours of skits and songs and improvisational routines. Boston's newest comedy group livens up the stage and introduces its audience to a pleasure most people outside Chicago have never previously discovered--live comedy...
...which appeared almost certain to sweep many of the top prizes just a few months ago, managed, by contrast, to crawl away with only four minor trophies. Gandhi took most of the awards E. T. was expected to get, including Best Director (Richard Attenborough), Best Original Screenplay (John Briley), Best Cinematography (Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor) and Best Film Editing (John Bloom). All in all, the 3-hr. 5-min. epic won eight prizes, more than any other film since Cabaret, which snatched eight...
...fell and died while working the fields, and remembers "Pop's dead eyes looking at [him]." He thinks of the ancient river that flowed over his land before him or his tools and "can almost feel the cold waters and the tickling the trilobiters make when they crawl," and he stays...
...minutes." Jack started panicking--he'd counted on his dead-end row of carrels being dark, but a graduate student was still engrossed in work four carrels away, and there was an overhead light that stayed obstinately on with no switch in sight. Time moved at a crawl, especially since he had incautiously put his head down directly on top of his watchband...