Word: panning
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...oversized head, doe, drugged-out eyes, and sharp physique was certainly not the pony that I galloped around my bedroom mountains.When the ’80s toy revolution began a year or two ago, I was elated. Finally, proof that it wasn’t only my own Peter-Pan-complexed self that believed these playthings were far superior to the more technologically advanced but ultimately soulless products of today. Certainly this decision was probably, in part, based on the fact that the ’80s children are just starting to poke their heads into the worlds of parenting...
...scene to scene with such natural exuberance, it’s a wonder no music video auteur has thought of casting him before. One minute he’s dancing down the escalator, the next he’s prancing through an elevator hallway, culminating in a surreal Peter Pan-like flight through the air in the final minute of the video. As absurd as it may be, if there is one human being who could actually fly and sustain acrobatic aerials through the air, it would be Christopher Walken. —Jessica C. Coggins2. ThrillerMichael JacksonAccording to iTunes...
...penning “Escape (The Piña Colada Song),” but, contrary to expectations, the film is not about piña coladas and getting caught in the rain so much as pill overdoses and getting found dead in a bathtub.From the opening shot (pan across a bathroom, ominous music, an overly-loving close-up of a naked woman drowned in a bathtub), “Where the Truth Lies” plants itself firmly in the venerable shady-side-of-showbiz genre. This particularly sordid little tale centers on the Martin-and-Lewis-esque 1950s...
...right on target. Bethlehem Steel eventually filed for bankruptcy, and the PBGC took over its pension plans--which were short $3.7 billion. The company, once America's second largest steelmaker, no longer exists. In the Top 50 pension deadbeats of 1990, the PBGC reported that the funds of Pan Am Corp., operator of what was once the premier global airline, had only one-third of the assets needed to pay its promised pensions. Pan Am does not exist today...
...Quite so," Buckwheat chimed in. "Why would anyone throw around highfalutin' phrases like 'Pan African Communications Behaviors' unless they were trying to bamboozle the government into financing a bilingual education program for ghetto kids...