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...pick-up chugged along, with the cab humping upward every third beat somewhat like a caterpillar crawl. It was the single dirtiest vehicle I had ever ridden in--when I retrieved my bright-red backpack out of the back at the end of my ride, it had turned brown, brown with black racing stripes. Come to find out the driver carried his organic fertilizer around back there, mostly cow manure, that is, with pig and chicken droppings thrown in as a kicker. But you couldn't ask for a more pleasant ride--Mt. Pisgah National Forest, hills and dales, glinting...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Sliding Rock'n'Roll | 7/9/1976 | See Source »

...finale, he calls out the British navy. Against a shimmering pastel backdrop of ships and harbor waters, the company reassembles for a flotilla of fun. Salutes, crawl strokes and the gestures associated with rope hauling are incorporated into Balanchine's choreographic concept as smoothly as the jeté and fouetté. The leader of a squad of WRENS (women's naval service), Farrell ambles sexily, as though she had a chip on her hip or, just perhaps, an invisible set of bagpipes. If such a thing as an apotheosis of the sidle can be imagined, Farrell has done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Flotilla of Fun | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...crawl through the sand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

Harvard was in command right from the start as the team of Malcolm Cooper (backstroke), Brent Haywood (breaststroke), Tim Neville (butterfly), and Kevin O'Connell (crawl) picked up seven points in the 400 medley relay with a time...

Author: By Theodore A. Christopher, | Title: Swimmers Down Weak Bruins, 78-25 | 2/25/1976 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Lorenzo Mariani, | Title: Stale Vichy Water | 2/3/1976 | See Source »

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