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Word: motionful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complexity of the Dallas offense does not worry Widenhofer either. "We have an advantage in playing Cincinnati twice this year," he says. "The Bengals use lots of motion. The only difference between Dallas and Cincinnati is where the quarterback is." The Steelers' offense is more predictable. Fullback Franco Harris was good for almost 5 yds. a smash this season, and Quarterback Terry Bradshaw, who is also having his best season, will throw to him as well. For deeper patterns, he looks to the speedy Lynn Swann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gunning for a Title | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...before the Senate Finance Committee and a new attempt to muster votes for it probably will be made in 1976. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Vice President Burton R. Marcus concedes that the current law has bred abuses that "constitute a rip-off and ought to be eliminated." Like other motion-picture executives, however, he is afraid that Congress may enact legislation that would damage the industry's ability to obtain conventional outside financing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cinematic Shelter | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...elbows, make sure you lift your skirts, ladies, watch your eleves," or "That retard should last forever, Marianna-you have a full second." In Tharp time, a second is an eternity. Her dancers are given a lot to do in the space of a beat. In one seemingly continuous motion, swaying hips slink into wiggles that burst into furious pirouettes, then stop on a dime and reverse directions. It is as if Tharp worked to encapsulate all of movement in one lightning-speed action. Audiences are dazzled, dancers left breathless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: A Touch of Tharp | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

Despite his reputation as a quick-fire lover, Casanova is moving out of the bedsheets and onto the screen in slow motion at best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 12, 1976 | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...faster and the early shoppers begin to recognize him as a kind of local hero climaxing in the one morning when he finally mounts the steps of the capital just as the sun comes over the top of the skyscrapers. It is a vision of triumph; only the slow motion of Rocky's victorious jumping in the air is a little overdone...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Miracle in Philadelphia | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

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