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...herself and fill expanses of time never before regarded. "I would wake in the morning frightened, wondering how I would fill the hours until it was time to sleep again." We are left to watch a 30 year-old woman who has never functioned as a free adult grope for a normal life...
...sage of the tax revolt, touchstone of the most important social and economic movement of our era, seemed to emerge half from central casting and half from the Bible--the prophet come to save a nation, live and in color. His Jeremiad condemned demon government and its lecherous grope for the tax dollar; the reverberations of Howard Jarvis's leap in the dark still echo today, as his spiritual brethren control the White House, the Senate, and apparently, the national conscience...
...fluid dance sequences, uninterrupted by camera tricks, had better go back and see The Turning Point. This is Cinema as much as Dance; All That Jazz is a dancing movie in that it is a movie that dances. The best sequence is "Come Fly With Me," the greatest group grope in the history of movies, climaxing in smoky half-light. Fosse can give you bodies one segment at a time, cutting from an undulating thigh to a face in the audience to a medium shot of half-naked dancers reaching to two glistening torsoes intertwined--rhythmically tantalizing, exhaustingly erotic...
...someone who grew up in the area what it means to play in the Beanpot. He'll grope for words, maybe mumble something about "pride" or "electricity in the air." Then, a pause. As a kid, he played street hockey every day in sub-freezing weather, using the curbs for boards and garbage cans or a Rube Goldberg wooden contraption for a net; made his parents wake up at four in the morning to shuttle him to some dingy arena when ice time is cheaper and the Pee Wee team can practice; stared transfixed as Bobby Orr led the Bruins...
These are all terms being used by U.S. experts as they grope for some way to define and explain the momentous events that have suddenly engulfed the international arena. What is clear is that the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan has heightened world tensions to their most serious level since the Viet Nam War, and perhaps even before...