Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adjectives--a pleasant change from Decter's brand of opinionated aggressiveness. The subtlety isn't constant, though; every once in a while they throw in a summing-it-all-up pronouncement that detracts from their overall accomplishment. In the profile of Lisa Menzies, whose high school reputation as fast seems well-deserved, and who lives at 28 with a fatherless child and a mother still bringing her groceries, the authors conclude, "In certain respects her life was a paradox:...Despite her hammerblows against convention, she had always been dependent on her parents--to get her out of jail, to shelter...
...intriques, provide the first, and the best, showcase for the talents of Lina Wertmuller. Her fluky--sometimes maudlin, sometimes racy--rhythm and pacing, the continual yak-yakking of her argumentative protagonists, even her crude flights of comical fancy all seem to fit in these cities. Here adults must act fast and foolishly in order to sustain the belief that their fierce chauvinism, mafioso loyalty and marital code of honor still mean anything in their industrialized, bureaucratized world...
...Tarkovsky flashes out his film with a bizarre, enigmatic, spirituality that ultimately defies hard and fast explanation. The soulful-eyed women and dreamlike lapes of time the ocean draws from Gibaryan's mind and memory, along with a palet of dewy, pastel colors unfamiliar to Western films, vaguely suggest other film and other motifs, but leave the viewer for the most part unsure and even uneasy...
...fast, pre-med heathen! I want a piece of the action...
Carl Smart works in a furniture factory and "Stick" Elliott sells junk, but if their callings are prosaic, the men are not. They are fast rollers in the grand Southern tradition of dirt track racing: small-town versions of Rapid Roy. Up to 3,500 fans will converge on the Concord Speedway 15 miles northeast of Charlotte, N.C., on a balmy Saturday evening to watch these two "pedal-to-the-metal" drivers bump fenders as they scream around the track in their blazing fast, gloriously battered stock cars. Stick and Carl are masters of the "power slide," a dirt racing...