Word: crawlingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...June 3, 1977, I officially got old. Just back from the Cannes film Festival, I'd been told by my editors at New Times magazine to catch up with Star Wars, which had opened to phenomenal business. And from the moment of the opening crawl, I was baffled. All these dense factoids about Galactic Empires and Death Stars--it was like some nightmare of a pop quiz in a course I hadn't taken. The sets were Formica, the characters cardboard; the tale had drive but no depth, a tour at warp speed through an antiseptic landscape. I admired George...
...their wings, insert electrodes in their antennae and affix a tiny backpack of electric circuits and batteries to their carapace. The electrodes prod them to turn left and right, go backward and forward. The plan is to equip them with minicameras or other sensory devices so that they can crawl into pipes to track vermin or, in a more heroic endeavor, be sent into earthquake rubble to locate survivors. Sewage inspection should suit them just fine: cockroaches are scavengers that eat their own. A spokesman for Combat Insect Control Systems, which makes household insecticides, says there is no shortage...
...says her mother Pattie. "She didn't win the competition, and she was very upset with herself. My husband said to her, 'You don't have to do this anymore.' She looked up and said, 'But I want to do it.'" Before Lisa Iverson could even walk, she would crawl onto the hearth and hoist herself up on the fireplace in their Tehechapi, California, home and perform--and she would get angry when her audience's attention wandered. In her early pageants, judges couldn't get her off the stage. Lisa is now a member of the Screen Actor...
When a rugby player is tackled, she simply lays the ball down and the action continues. The two teams collide over the ball, and try to pitch it back to their teammates, while the tackled player tries to crawl out of the middle...
...ready for them. By 8:30 all the babies are present, and Early and Devougas give them breakfast. "Everybody wants to be fed at the same time," says Early with a laugh. The room is clean and bright, painted in a pleasant combination of green and white. Some infants crawl around a blue carpet, where they play with blocks, stacking toys, a plastic mirror on wheels. On one recent afternoon, Early pushed the mirror toward 11-month-old Aubrey. "See that?" she said, "That's you!" The youngest babies are placed in infant seats, unless Early or Devougas...