Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...styles more apparent. If Szabo is European velvet, Retton is muscular American brashness. No one can generate her speed or leap to her heights; she can do numbers in floor exercises known only to men. On her first tumbling run, she pounded out enough time in the air to pull off a layout double back somersault, and exploded into a dazzling smile. It did not dim for the rest of her routine. When she landed her final twisting somersault, she had notched a 10. Szabo did not give any ground, however. She went out with solid...
...major problem lies in the construction of The Fourth Man. The movie follows a fairly straight narrative line from its beginning and the end, and the audience is wise to what is going on from the beginning, even if the characters pretend they're not. The end does not pull the carpet from underneath the watcher the way a Hitchcock conclusion would; rather, it adds the missing piece to a puzzle-picture we're already more than well familiar with...
...Weren't there times when she, child of a dark race, wanted to pull the whole world down with her, to avenge what it had made of her - and all like...
...corporate customers, whose deposits are above the $100,000 FDIC insurance limit, are quicker to pull their money out of a troubled bank than small depositors, who are usually insured. That situation made Continental vulnerable to the runaway rumors...
...crashing down. That could happen if skittish investors decide that the currency is greatly overvalued and suddenly start to sell. Such a run could blunt the U.S. recovery by draining off cash needed by American industry. Many observers believe, however, that the economy's vigor makes a dramatic pull-out unlikely...