Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blood-red sun was just peeking over the eastern ridge of California's Mojave Desert when the space shuttle Discovery began to descend like a silver hawk in search of prey. As it shattered the sound barrier, a thundering crack! seemed to rend the sky in two, and a cheer swelled from the crowd below. Within minutes the ship had rolled to a halt along the right side of the runway at Edwards Air Force Base, kicking up massive clouds of dust. Not since the landing of the first shuttle had NASA officials been so openly emotional. Said Mission...
Teddy Pierce (Gene Wilder) is a sound husband, father and junior executive who, at a glance, falls prey to an obsession with the leggy Woman in Red (Kelly Le Brock). He is also the leading player in one of this summer's more pungent pleasures: a well-made sex farce of classical proportions. If there is a horse to fall off or an airplane forced to land at the wrong airport, you may be sure Teddy will be aboard...
PAUL VERHOEVEN'S thriller opens with a shot of a screen-sized spider devouring its helpless prey. The movie ends on the same picture. While the two hours in between are entertaining enough a witty and sometimes outrageous romance complete with homosexual obsession, witchcraft, and enough lurid fantasy to earn the picture an X. The Fourth Man is nonetheless predictable and studied, almost like a computer's wet dream...
Radio Host Howard Stern [SHOW BUSINESS, July 9] is not a "belligerent broadcaster" like the others mentioned in your article who inflame their listeners and prey on their fears. Instead, Stern makes light of personal and cultural differences through his humor. Audiences laugh not at the individual caller but at Stern's comedic madness, which mocks the bigots who thrive on fear...
...bounces, it soars, it never comes to ground. What it misses, though, is the play's darker dimension, Shakespeare's grim message that love and honor are for ever prey to rumor and malice...