Word: fasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...both with ease, changed all that in a whirlwind few years (1940-44) at Paramount, where he auteured an incredible eight films--amazing in their quantity and quality. Seven of those comedies (all but The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) are amassed here as a reminder of how fast, reckless and smart movies can be. Sturges' social satire fizzes in The Great McGinty and Hail the Conquering Hero. But the pearl is The Lady Eve, with con artiste Barbara Stanwyck seducing naive Henry Fonda on the high seas and, just for fun, doing it again as a different woman...
...only possible redemption for all this is the tour-de-force performance by Julie White as the hyperkinetic agent. She certainly delivers a skillfully articulated comic turn: fast, physical, full of double-takes, grimaces, sidelong shudders and other nonverbal expressions of barely suppressed hysteria. But White seems to have simmered a bit too long in her critical raves; it's a look-at-me performance that simply overwhelms the play. On the other hand, this is a play that is painfully easy to overwhelm...
...case of strength vs. strength, something’s got to give when the Ivy League’s 2006 rushing leader faces a defensive line that has yet to allow a single player over 100 yards this season. McLeod is fast, strong, and determined to break a half-decade long Bulldog drought against Harvard and bring the league title back to New Haven for the first time since 1999. But if senior tackle Mike Berg has anything to say about it, the celebration won’t take place this year. He and sophomore tackle Matt Curtis patrol...
...also forced three fumbles for the Crimson—both best on the team. But the ‘first’ that Berg is most proud of took place in a game from 2005—The Game, to be specific.“It happened so fast I didn’t even know,” Berg says of his crucial interception—the first of his career at any level of football—on the first play of the third overtime during Harvard’s 30-24 win over Yale last year...
...Like Bullitt, though, Scott encountered a few problems. The fleeing car was going way too fast for an accurate PIT, so Scott chose another strategy. Nine miles and six minutes into the chase, he rammed the car from behind, sending it off the road and down an embankment. There was no gas station at the bottom, but the crash was bad enough: It rendered the driver, 19-year-old Vincent Harris, a quadriplegic...