Word: glide
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...minute communications blackout. To slow the descent, computers will order a series of linked S-turns. When the ship reaches a 5.2-mile stretch of dried lake bed numbered Runway 23 at Edwards Air Force Base, Columbia will make a 180° turn and begin its final hair-raising glide...
...Shall we, the good and dull of the earth, attempt to compete with the attention getters?" "Hurray for meat loaf!" "People who hang-glide are nuts!" "Yeah, you know what's fun, by God? Petting your dog, tuning up the old Chevy Nova." "More beer!" "Beer here...
...LEAVE AT NIGHT. If you hit the Mass Pike at about 11 p.m., you'll glide through Washington--the last city with any traffic to speak of--at about 6 the next morning. It's clear sailing from there to Ocala...
...into the hilly countryside. Later, a kind farm apprentice helps four damsels dressed in their Sunday-best across an enormous knee-deep puddle. He carries one across and then returns for another, carries second across and then returns for the third, etc. Later, a small army of fox-hunters glide on horseback through an early morning mist. Across the foggy plain they ride, their red coats flapping behind them. Polanski takes his time with every scene, the effects ranging from mesmerizing to anesthetizing. The sumptuous photography of Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet rescues several scenes from fatal tedium, always enchanting...
...percolate. When given a strong scene, like the dying Evita's farewell radio address, she can key several moods - weariness, coquetry, defiance - while providing the scene with a swift climactic kick. But Writer Ronald Harwood and Director Marvin Chomsky allow too much of Evita Perón to glide by on casters; and James Farentino, as Perón, looks and acts as if he could be Robert De Niro's older brother who went into accounting. One brief scene - in which Eva greets her new lover Juan with her arms and a leg sticking out seductively from...