Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remakes. Dressed to Kill is the most explicit of these homages: that shower (in a Long Island home instead of in the Bates Motel), those blonds (Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen instead of Janet Leigh and Vera Miles), that transvestite killer (Mr. X instead of Anthony Perkins), plus a prowl through a museum, lifted from Vertigo, and a sound-effects trick from The 39 Steps. But De Palma has done it before, and, in Sisters and Carrie, he did it with compassion and an agreeably gross...
...superpowers prowl the Indian Ocean "We have the preponderance of power. If it were to start tomorrow, it would be over in a day." So concluded a senior Pentagon official last week, referring to a potential U.S.-Soviet naval clash in the now strategically critical Indian Ocean, where mighty armadas of the two superpowers warily stalk each other. So far, U.S. Navy Task Force 70 clearly rules the Indian Ocean's waves. Though the total number of ships fluctuates as vessels rotate in and out of Camel Station (as American sailors have nicknamed the area...
...being willing to die for dear old Texaco, does what he is told, and a plastic bag is yanked over his head to help keep him quiet. These guys prefer unmarked trucks because, say, a Mobil truck pulling up to an Exxon station might draw the attention of a prowl car. They drive to a friendly gas station, usually an off-brand place where a deal had been prearranged, sort of a hijack-to-order. It is not too shrewd to grab a tank truck and cruise the streets. Anyhow, the gas is pumped out, and the hijackers are handed...
Then there are the stealthy moments. Another example from Samson and Delilah: I was one of the blinders, the people who blind Samson in the second act. There's a storm, the stage is dark--the ten of us have to prowl around the stage before we sneak up and pounce...