Word: creeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...indulgent of Jessica Lange as she goes through her role of the petulant hellcat. Again and again. Rafelson sets up scenes that point to her vicious, fatal beauty, to give the sense that it is doomed from the start. His camera lingers, constantly circling Nicholson and Lange and they creep around each other in their American dance macabre...
...warned the American public of the "danger that public policy could become the captive of a scientific-technological elite," but these remarks have been quoted much less frequently than those concerning the "military-industrial complex." The government's continued emphasis on military research and development has resulted in "technological creep,"--a phenomenon in which the mere discovery of new weapons technologies necessitates their production and deployment...
...what is it laughing at--the drag? More often, the semi-sloshed, thigh-slapping enjoyment at the Pudding Show seems almost prurient--as though the audience would like to see the real thing, but will settle for licensed imitation. It's just one of those little incongruities that can creep into your mind if you haven't been popping champagne corks as quickly as your neighbor...
...Hollywood have affairs? In the year of Serial, Middle Age Crazy, Loving Couples and now A Change of Seasons, one begins to think not. If they did, then surely some of the wry worldliness of the French, who have always known how to make movies about affairs, would creep into the American equivalent. That's what these stories of middleaged, middle-class sexual adventure require. Instead, the guilts alternate with the smirks, and the only acceptable mood in which the characters may venture forth is a tiresomely adolescent...
...shuttle that is to orbit at speeds up to 17,500 m.p.h. was trundled to its lift off site on a massive crawler-tractor that took 7½ hours to creep the 3½ miles from the Kennedy Space Center's immense Vehicle Assembly Building. NASA's delight could be detected as far away as Houston. There, a technician watching the proceedings on television at the Johnson Space Center exclaimed what many felt: "Hey! This is for real! We're back to launching birds again." It has been a long time between shots...