Word: crawlingly
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Normal is a line that rocks and weaves; you have to chase it. In New York it means leaving home two hours earlier if you have to drive over a bridge, because it takes a while for the guards to crawl over and under and through every 18-wheeler that is trying to get into Manhattan. But it was a comfort in the midtown crush, finally, to hear a driver yell, "Hey, move the car, jerk!" and sense the return of vehicular hostility; that felt like normal too. Miss America visited ground zero, as did Paul Newman and John Travolta...
...Normal is a line that rocks and weaves; you have to chase it. In New York it means leaving home two hours earlier if you have to drive over a bridge, because it takes a while for the guards to crawl over and under and through every 18-wheeler that is trying to get into Manhattan. But it was a comfort in the midtown crush, finally, to hear a driver yell, "Hey, move the car, jerk!" and sense the return of vehicular hostility; that felt like normal too. Miss America visited ground zero, as did Paul Newman and John Travolta...
...brother was finally crawling, but no faster than he could sit up. Mama had trained him to crawl all the way to the bathroom with an occasional pause to rest his arms on our soot-colored carpet. His head looked heavier than a watermelon; whenever he tried to raise it the whole thing wobbled. His arms were incredibly strong considering he still depended on Mama to change his diapers, put on his clothes and cut his food into tiny bits. Whenever she tried to let him eat by himself, mangled pieces of chicken would fall from his tiny mouth...
...accuracy," says Sgt. Maj. Davey Averill, who oversees weapon handling. For the first week the Sierra Leone soldiers practice without bullets. "Some of them are struggling," says Averill. "They're not safe and we won't let them fire live rounds until they're safe." So the soldiers crawl around through the long grass at the edge of camp shouting "bang, bang" in imitation of gunfire...
...always, though. Intriguing plot twists (like the exploits of the nicely malicious Martin) are dropped for excursions that are more about art direction than efficient storytelling. And O'Connor lacks the maternal and womanly radiance that's needed, since the film is basically about a boy's urge to crawl into his mother...