Word: headlong
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...tasks of the specialty units are thankless. Sprinting headlong down the field to make bone-jarring tackles on kick returns, trying to spring for a long gainer on a return, trotting onto the turf to boot what everyone assumes to be an automatic point after touchdown, punting the ball in gray New England--these are not the things that make the headlines...
...Rolls-Royce, new meaning has been given to the term carriage trade. The venerable British firm last week showed off its new 1981 model, the Silver Spirit, which runs headlong into current automotive trends by being lower and wider than its predecessor. This is the automaker's first new four-door model in 15 years. In an understated manner, Rolls-Royce likes to boast about the subtle engineering changes in its vehicles; among other things, the Silver Spirit features a new digital-display clock that replaces the famous ticking one, which according to a famous old Rolls...
...tone he was able to attain, by adopting Truman's give-'em-hell style. Perspiration pouring from his face, his voice hoarse, his eyes coldly angry, Carter gave a shouting stump speech unlike almost any he has delivered before, in content as well as manner. It was a headlong assault on his rival, Ronald Reagan, depicting him as a dweller in "a world of tinsel and make-believe" who would "launch an all-out nuclear arms race" and start "an attack on everything that we've done in the achievement of social justice and decency in the last 50 years...
...shocked discovery, with the sudden rage of people who felt that they had been lied to by the myth. In fact, they had. The American history that they had been taught did not realistically show them the violent underside of their huge and diverse nation, and thus they fell headlong into an apocalyptic absolutism that is common among Americans. If they are not the best in the world, then they imagine that surely they must be the worst. The psychological pattern still applies...
Assume for a moment that Director John Landis means to subvert the twin genres of musical comedy and action melodrama. He fails there, since periodically the film stops dead in its headlong rush toward satire and puts on an ingratiating face, mugging and mewling to win over its audience. Landis seems no surer of his visual style than he does of his movie's tone, so he tries everything: shots angled from a dog's-or a god's-eye view, eerily lighted special effects, more dancers, more extras, more noise, more cars and car crashes. Alas...