Word: pedestrianization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...vacant Caulfield is surely the least promising newcomer since Pia Zadora. The director is Patricia Birch, who choreographed both the Broadway show and the first film. She cuts too much too fast, works too nervously in the musical staging, and veers from the peculiar to the pedestrian in the straight scenes. There is no security in her vision, but then, the whole movie seems to be nothing more than an excuse for a sound-track album...
Shoelaces are among the least sung-about parts of any wardrobe. Most people hardly notice them. But now style has claimed even these pedestrian pieces of string. Fancy laces imprinted with rainbows, hearts, stars and whole menageries are turning sneakers and jogging shoes into snazzy footwear...
Preach, nigger, preach!" Out of the darkness the voice rose-young, proud, urgent, female and black. It was an exhortation that might have been addressed to the spellbinding pastor of a Harlem storefront church, or to a Black Panther stopping pedestrian traffic on a street corner in Oakland, or to an ardent buck accelerating into passion on an apartment-house roof in Atlanta. As it happens, the voice came from the back of a theater auditorium in Long Beach, Calif. It was shouted to the man onstage, who could lay claim to being all those people: minister to the oppressed...
...never find out just why James Shapiro is out there, a forlorn pedestrian on the road in the middle of Nebraska. But this lonely, displaced New Yorker has something to say about being alone, and the phenomenon of a man challenging himself, running for running's sake...
...walls of the town prison. Four masked men leaped from the car and began spraying machine-gun fire at two guards in a watchtower. In the prison courtyard, four women inmates who were Red Brigades members heard the shots and overpowered a guard. Then the car exploded, killing a pedestrian, shattering windows within a quarter-mile radius and blowing a 4-ft-wide hole in the wall. The four convicts scrambled through the smoking gap, joined their rescue team and vanished without a trace...