Word: reel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he is out bowling in the first reel, Harry's vision suddenly blurs and his arm goes numb. And so do one's expectations for the movie. For grim experience warns that when otherwise hearty middle-aged males (Harry happily wields the wrecker's ball on construction sites) suffer alarming physical symptoms right after the opening credits, more than unemployment and a heart attack are sure to follow. The crisis will be the occasion for lugubrious but ultimately uplifting reflections on a number of important matters: aging and mortality, the relationship between men and women...
...When the eye, mind and heart are engaged by artful storytellers, questions of duration become irrelevant. One enduring Hollywood epic, D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, ran for more than 2½ hours in 1915, when the most popular movies were Charlie Chaplin's two-reel comedies. Another Civil War melodrama, the 1939 Gone With the Wind, clocked in at 222 minutes. Yet both films tell their tales faster than Star Wars and with twice the sweep...
Perhaps the most telling feat of all was the Crimson's climb to prominence in the Ivy League--a climb which saw Harvard reel off four straight victories before closing with the season's most disappointing loss, at Brown, and the tie at Yale. But the 4-1-1 league record was good enough for a second-place league finish, just one-half game behind Penn's 5-1 championship mark...
...Lempke fish sense is combined with a mischievous sense of humor, and a studied disregard for the pretensions and conceits affected by adherents of the sport. He uses an automatic reel, for instance, considered quite gauche by purists. He blends a mixture of gasoline and an oily substance called Mucilin to use as dry-fly ointment. He stumbled on his own version of the green drake when he noticed the rubber mat unraveling from an old throw rug and worked it into his fly to give it body without adding significant weight. When he is suited up for fishing...
...using the orthopedic devices. I began to walk between the parallel bars, lurching and staggering at first, then moving with more confidence. I was able to squat down and run in place, but I was still unable to walk without holding on to the parallel bars. I tended to reel off sideways, the result of having remained too long in an enclosed space. (After we had spent a few years in small cells in the Boniato prison, several of us were brought out into the corridors: we reeled as if we were drunk...