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Word: motions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Finishing School should thoroughly satisfy both of Godwin's constituencies. It is at once her most artful and accomplished novel and an old-fashioned, irresistible page turner. The plot, like that of A Mother and Two Daughters, is set in motion by the death of a father and the adjustments demanded of the women he protected. But this time Godwin has made things harder on the survivors, particularly a young daughter who must endure a brief but harrowing rite of passage toward maturity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deliberate Speed, Stunning Effect the Finishing School | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

Parts of the movie succeed quite well in creating a mood of realism, in particular a "Southern California atmosphere." Motion and speed are used extensively, along with the obligatory car scenes, to frequently impart a very real sense of vibrancy. Unfortunately, this exciting aspect of the movie, somewhat reminiscent of a souped-up West Side Story, is shortchanged by the moralizing attempts...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Ruffed Up Tuff | 2/1/1985 | See Source »

Most of yesterday's women's hockey game looked like a slow-motion film--even the collisions seemed to take place at low speed...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Icewomen Triumph, 4-0 | 1/31/1985 | See Source »

Luckily for Harvard, that slow-motion movie had a happy ending...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Icewomen Triumph, 4-0 | 1/31/1985 | See Source »

...immortalized that leap. So there is no need for this coffee-table film to strain as mightily as it does to present itself as a class act. That's Dancing! may display Grecian urns to establish the art's ancient pedigree; it may keep referring to movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine on his shoes or Busby Berkeley deploy his battalion of chorines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Peg-Legged That's Dancing! | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

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