Word: reelingly
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...time. Boggled by grim, paranoid plots like Marathon Man and savage heroes like the Taxi Driver, audiences may be ready to buy his gentler, uncomplicated machismo. Stallone is sure of it. At a private screening of Rocky for his mother last week he leaped on-stage during the first reel and shouted, "Hey, Ma, I made it. I made it, Ma." Ma nodded and wiped away a tear...
...dramatically altering government policy in the process. President Ford has been no exception. Both candidates are challenged to please as many voters as possible, to cater to a completely heterogeneous assortment of values and beliefs while appearing consistent and self-controlled. After months of this they inevitably blunder and reel from the reaction...
...film rhythm and a willingness to give his actors generous creative space. All these qualities were absent from Sunday Funnies, the program's third installment, a meat-cleaver satire about prom night in the '50s that had all the wit and technical finesse of a stag reel...
...Sjevik was steaming slowly 1½ nautical miles outside the Soviet fishing boundary north of the Russian naval base at Murmansk, the cable between the ship and the net it was dragging along the ocean floor 450 ft. below suddenly started rushing off its reel. "At first," reported Sjevik Skipper Ivar Hamnen when he returned to Norway last week, "we thought our net had been snared by the gear of another fishing vessel. But no other ship was trawling in the vicinity. Our ship began moving backward, pulled by an invisible force that was stronger than our engine. Then...
...colors. Rouben Ter-Arutunian's kilts are ravishing in their tartan greens, blues, yellows, scarlets and burgundies. At first the clans, led by such soloists as Jacques d'Amboise, Karin von Aroldingen and Suzanne Farrell, yield the floor to each other for classical ballet variations on the reel, jig and sword dance. But what Balanchine weaves at the end is a counterpart in motion for the plaid costumes. As 70 dancers-the largest ensemble Balanchine has ever used -march past one another in columns, one can almost see the choreographer's loom working...