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Because Miller dared to make a move without a single graduate of Saturday Night Live - or, for that matter, a single liberal impulse - his film has been consigned to the grind houses, where audiences are responding as Miller wants them to ("Eek!" "Ugh!" "Wow!"). From there Mad Max will find its way to the film schools and revival houses, where its tough-gutted intelligence may be appreciated...
...attempt to control the center, the two moderates have taken conflicing stances within their own party platforms, so that support from both left and right will be scattered in both camps. However, Bentsen's strong support from organized labor may be the trump card that allows him to eek out a narrow victory...
...mark. Anchorage, rimmed on three sides by mountains, has air-pollution problems like those of Los Angeles. In Fairbanks, ice fogs mix with smoke and auto exhaust to produce a particularly noxious result, and the Chena River, which splits the city, is a sewer. In the desolate village of Eek (pop. 182), sewage disposal is impossible because the water table is practically level with the ground. The only flush toilet in town is disconnected. Human
...over items like roast goose with a stuffing of pate-filled prunes or a simple mousseline de poisson a la marechale, she mutters archaically about the "icebox," refers to the ventral area of the bird as its "chest," advises using "a few good whaps of pepper." She even says "eek" on occasion, when things go wrong; but nothing really troubles her. If a filling drools out onto a baking sheet or artichoke leaves uncooperatively start to flop out of shape, she just scoops and shoves until natural perfection is unnaturally assembled. Voila...
...fayre solempne man, But coude no more abyde al this speche And set about his own manere to teche. Seyde he that evyle was stille synn And synn, an evyle always hadde been. And so the werre wageth al aroune Whyle clerkes werk goes merrily aloune Eek I will pace its proces day by day And haply holpen it aloune the way. J.K. Dane...