Word: reel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pausing at the gutter to retch quietly for a moment then loudly rejoining the buoyant inebriated throng, they totter off toward the campus or a cafe where they can calm down with a cup of coffee. The fraternal transport is not at is beatific height. Arm in arm they reel indifferent to traffic or the piercing cold: one lifts his hands to the frigid heavens and races down the street backward, his scarf and topcoat wildly flapping in the wind, crying out in ecstasy. "Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord!" The unbroken tension of weeks--of a year and a half...
...West Germany's Sears, Roebuck of sex, offering more than 3,500 varieties of love aids, ranging from bawdy books to inflatable mates. Now Europe's leading erotic entrepreneur has her sights set on the estimated $5 billion U.S. pornography market. Uhse's new American subsidiary, Reel Pleasure Unlimited, is distributing a portfolio of hard-core movies to 46 theaters across the U.S. In keeping with her reputation for peddling only top-of-the-line pornography, the initial release, Extremes, is the first X-rated film to feature four-channel Dolby stereo...
...there beside her, in the person of a canvas-backed prizefighter (Tommy Lee Jones). He causes some trouble, but turns out to be useful and good-natured when new difficulties arise in the course of their odyssey together. And arise they do, with metronomic and lugubrious regularity, once a reel. If the pair get a few bucks ahead, someone is sure to rip them off, and probably do them some physical harm...
Hear any good Northeastern jokes lately? How about the Husky defenseman who brought a rod and reel on the ice...for fishing the puck out of the net? That one hasn't been around for a while, not since last year. That's what The Beanpot...
...aging but adept masseur. But this Scottie is no longer a man one would care to spend an evening drinking with, or even observing. He chokes on his own gag lines; he straitjackets his son (Robby Benson) in a slapstick embrace. The audience is trapped too. The knowledge, from Reel 1, that Scottie is soon to die forecloses a mortgage on the viewer's affections. Saying the film is a failure becomes an immoral...