Word: groan
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Arms flailing, body cavorting, he seemed to slice and move like a Shonen Knife song. He did twists, he did turns, he did a bunch of spinaround thingies, performing flawlessly--with the exception of one misstep (which was met with an obnoxious groan by the announcer)--for a five-minute period which seemed like an hour...
...this visual failure breaks the spell and blunts the ballet's appeal. The best solutions to filming dance were worked out in 1930s musicals. It's hard to fly to dreamland if you have to keep deciphering the signals. Fred Astaire -- who insisted on clarity above all else -- would groan...
...bottom of this matter. If Rollins' first blurted words were the truth, then the election should be re-run. It's not enough to say, "We're sorry, we'll do better next time," when the sanctity of voting rights is violated. While Safire and other Nixon alumni groan, the democratic process must take its course...
...former Harkin aides were present). The eeriest reverse deja-vu moment came when the camera caught Begala outside a hotel doing his drop-dead Perot imitation to abc's Mark Halperin's decent Al Gore, a preview of the matchup the night before on Larry King Live. The deepest groan sounded when, on-screen, campaign chairman (now U.S. Trade Representative) Mickey Kantor, in his power tie and suspenders, enters a room full of jeans and T shirts with election-day returns and apologizes to the camera for saying...
...play recounts two parallel plots which merge in the conclusion. While the peasants of the wee Spanish hamlet of Fuente Ovejuna groan under the rapine yoke of their wicked overlord, Fernando Gomez de Guzman, that same overlord joins in a rebellion against their Catholic Majesties, Ferdinand and Isabella, of fifth-grade history fame. But in the spheres of both high politics and human resources, Fernando "Hubris" Gomez oversteps the limit, with positively diabolic consequences...