Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appearances, Christopher Reeve is not moving. His hands lie in their black leather rests like fish on platters. Black straps hold them in place. A seat belt holds his midsection in place but is needed only when a spasm threatens to jolt his body from the chair. Otherwise he and the chair are one--the 6-ft. 4-in. frame of the man conforming to the contours of the black metal contraption that, with its array of tubes, dials, wheels and wires, looks to be part hospital, part tractor...
...Again I felt that need to apologize. I felt embarrassed for having failed, for not having been able to win the struggle. But then my great Dr. Kirshblum came in, and I was given a massive dose of epinephrine, and it jump-started my heart. Suddenly, with a jolt, my heart was pounding, pounding, pounding. My face was pounding. My pulse was in my face. I took in gulps of air. And within a few minutes I was back. That was the second time I'd almost died, and that was enough...
...called it En Attendant (Waiting, later Waiting for Godot), and it was just the jolt of negative energy that a somnolent postwar theater needed. Vladimir and Estragon, two tramplike figures in a blank landscape, pass the time in Act I "blathering about nothing in particular," as Estragon notes, while awaiting the arrival of the never-to-arrive Godot. They spend Act II doing the same thing. As one critic said, "Nothing happens, twice...
...boisterous celebration sent Dole into the fall campaign against President Clinton with a jolt of enthusiasm but still as the underdog, an often uneven campaigner against a polished Democratic incumbent at a time of peace and low unemployment...
...thick music of Scottish accents mean that you'll have to cram for Trainspotting. Attention must be paid, and will be rewarded with the scabrous savor of the movie's lightning intelligence. The subject is heroin, but the style is speed. This film is an upper--a jolt of pure movie energy...