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Word: quicked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole is mere window dressing. This is a film about sword fights, and what sword fights there are! The beginning and end of Highlander are so breathtakingly packed with expert swashbuckling and awesome scenery that the audience doesn't have time to stop and disbelieve. Well-timed, quick switches between the caverns of Manhattan and the beautiful Scottish landscape reduce the sensation of temporal incongruity to a minimum. The film should have never stopped to explain all this nonsense about immortality and the Prize. The sword fights and action scenes are what make Highlander a might-be-worth-seeing...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Ancient Swords and Modern Silliness | 3/21/1986 | See Source »

Hearing that an expressway was to pass close by, they bought another house last September and put the old homestead on the market. But they quickly repented. "That is where half my life has been spent," he says, "and where my various pets are buried. Everything kind of spreads out from there." Now the new house is for sale, and he and Merula are comforting themselves with a wry, Guinness-style logic: "We're going to be so old and blind and deaf by the time the road gets there that maybe we won't notice it." Old age seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alec Guinness Takes Off His Masks | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...drug, long after any sensation of being high had passed, the pilots were still swerving dangerously upon landing. One "crashed" his plane beside the runway. The researchers, who are now expanding the study, concluded that marijuana users may have difficulty performing complex mechanical tasks or doing work that demands quick reactions for 24 hours after smoking the drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Enemy Within | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...ironic nobility; about them a Brit can feel at once guilty and nostalgic. Unless, of course, one has to deal with their sons and daughters on the streets of London. Now the Indo-Paks' manner is seen as rude and abrupt, their intellectual energy devoted to turning a quick quid, and in areas like South London there is a new caste system, with the immigrants running things and the working-class white "natives" in their employ. The Pakistanis and , the punks are inverting colonialism and reinventing capitalism. The empire has come home, and on both sides, proximity breeds contempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rue Britannia My Beautiful Laundrette | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...though Dadswell turned aside a number of early threats, an interference call on the Red netminder at 6:13 of the opening frame led to a quick end of his shutout. A minute into the power play, Yale's Bob Kudelski--who had missed the net earlier on a semi-breakaway--skated down the right side and dropped a pass to Randy Wood...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Dadswell Sparkles in Double OT Triumph | 3/15/1986 | See Source »

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