Word: pretzelism
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...visitor to the set can see, 1941 has no bearing on any other film, and certainly no bearing on 1941 as the history books have recorded it. "We're taking history and bending it like a pretzel," says Spielberg. "I would use the words stupidly outrageous to describe this movie. It's really a celebration of paranoia. I hope that you'll come away saying that hypertension...
Brown intrigued audiences with his unorthodox, sometimes obscure, opinions. He termed the Administration's energy and economic policies "a pretzel palace of confusion." A foe of nuclear power, Brown charged that the White House had made "a Faustian bargain with radioactive technology that will last for hundreds of thousands of years." Brown urged Americans to "join together, not in the sterile games of Metternich clones who want to play chess with the countries of this planet, but rather in a politics that recognizes that the central concerns are in protecting this planet and unifying the peoples of this earth...
...personal-best time might prompt an athlete to swim extra laps with seemingly endless energy. A euphoric basketball squad would rush onto the hardwood and mob each other with embraces when victorious, but when defeated the team would walk somberly to their locker room, grab a Coke and a pretzel, and hurry off to the solitude of a hot shower...
...desparate sliding turn at high speed to avoid a beginner who had fallen in my path. I never got control and could feel something awful happening to my knee as I plunged into a snowbank. My bindings did not release and I found myself wrapped up like a pretzel and in considerable pain. A ski patrolman came by and congratulated me for my graceful swoon. Then he left. Approximately half an hour later I managed to get up and it took me two hours to complete a 30 minute run. My knee
...fool for punishment. He makes his living from it. He pulls down a hard dollar as a bail bondsman and indulges in much gruff whimsy during working hours. "What's the good word?" a gangster client asks him innocently. Alex pounces: "Sunset is a good word. Pretzel is a good word." At last, the gypsy stirring in her soul, Maritza jumps the bail that Alex has posted for her assault rap and heads for Mazatlán in a private plane, accompanied by a rich gent with a lickerish eye. Alex, who has spent most of the movie trying...