Word: lap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picking up at the end of the collection with Shampoo, Godfather II and Nashville, Kael does something she's never done before: she lifts her analytical tools from the film itself and begins to sell it to the reader; she seems to ladle on superlatives for the publicists to lap up. About Tango, she writes, miscalculating badly, that "this is a movie people will be arguing about, I think, for as long as there are movies." Shampoo is called "the most virtuoso example of sophisticated, kaleidoscopic farce that American moviemakers have ever come up with." And we've seen...
Despite his assets, the front runner came dangerously close to blowing his lead in the final lap. After smashing Favorite Son Lloyd Bentsen in Texas on May Day, he was shocked by six setbacks over the next five weeks. He lost Nebraska, Idaho and Oregon to Church; he dropped Maryland, Nevada and Rhode Island to Brown; he just barely edged Udall in Michigan...
...sitting on the floor, legs crossed, the latest issue of Psychology Today in his lap, wearing a baggy pair of wrinkled pajamas, desperately fumbling to unlock the hallway phone that he shared with his neighbors. Sweat poured off his brow...
Booby Prize. "How many believe what I've said?" Ron asks, and the hands shoot up. "Then you're assholes. Don't believe or disbelieve any of it. Just hold onto it like a brick on your lap." Our aim should just be to "get it"-acknowledge what has been said. Many fear that the philosophy is too deep for them, but Ron says it will all become clear later. Hostile questioners are verbally thrashed and told to "come off your act." Intellectuals, who are already guilty of thinking, are tripped up by est's Catch...
...teammates lowered the fourth new engine in two weeks into her balky No. 27. Burned-out pistons were a consistent problem, but even when running smoothly the car was no blue streak, failing to get within reach of the 180-m.p.h. speed probably necessary for qualification. With her best lap going into the last day of qualification a low 173.611, Guthrie had a lot of m.p.h.s to pick up before making the 500's starting field. Curiosity seekers, badgering journalists and sexist detractors all considered, what bothered Guthrie most was getting the car up to speed. "The rest...