Word: low-slung
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...headed farther west, getting closer to the canal, we encountered clusters of tanks stopped by the roadside, their crews relaxing. Some of the low-slung Fattens and big Centurions were waiting to advance. Others were serving as a defense against possible Egyptian commando leapfrog raids behind Israeli lines. Those Israelis who had already been in battle were telling fearful tales about some of Egypt's new Soviet-supplied weapons, especially the SA-6 missile, which has taken a devastating toll of Israeli jets. These soldiers also spoke with respect of the new Russian-made antitank weapon...
Director John Avildsen, who made Joe, continues to prove himself a master of the visual cliche, the low-slung symbol and the stereophonic anticlimax. He is abetted by Scenarist Steve Shagan, a sort of drip-dry Clifford Odets, who puts klieg lights around every metaphor. According to the credits, Shagan also functioned as the producer. Considering the results, that is a little like running off your unpublishable novel on your own vanity press...
...tote submachine guns and grenades, and the legislature itself sometimes resembles an armed camp. When TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich visited the legislature in Guatemala City last week, he saw one gun-for-hire character who wore a black cowboy hat, black shirt and black trousers and carried a low-slung .45 automatic...
Despite efforts by their U.S. guide and the South Vietnamese prison commandant to keep them away, the Congressmen found what they were looking for: two low-slung buildings containing 80 windowless cells with bars in the ceilings. Luce and the Congressmen described the cells, each of which held three to five prisoners, as 5 ft. by 9 ft., though U.S. officials insist they are 12 by 15. Buckets of lime lined the catwalk. The commandant claimed they were to whitewash the walls, but the prisoners shouted through the bars that the lime was dumped on them as a disciplinary measure...
Last week Porsche returned to Le Mans revved up for revenge. This time they had the new Porsche 917, a low-slung speedster with a 4.9-liter engine and 660 h.p. that can hit speeds of up to 200 m.p.h. on the straightaway. As was the case last year, the West German cars had already clinched the world championship, having won endurance races in the U.S., England, Italy, Belgium and Germany. Nonetheless, as the most prestigious race on the international circuit, the 24 Hours of Le Mans was one trophy the Porsche team dearly wanted to win -a feat they...