Word: reelingly
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Ensign, along with Richard R. Baxter a Harvard law professor, and A. Frank Reel, a New York attorney, evaluated the importance of war crime trials at a forum sponsored by the Harvard International Law Club...
These reversals amount to a "last-reel syndrome": you can get away with anything, so long as everything turns out all right in the end. We resist these endings now, just as one feels the people involved in the movie must have resisted their necessity. In a sense, we know better-Dietrich wouldn't have followed Cooper, just as gangsters (Cagney in Public Enemy or Muni in Scarface) don't have to die-and we ignore the insistence of the censors on "just retribution...
...train wreck, for example-but the movie is notably slack where it should be zestful. It is mostly a replay of familiar fare: John Wayne flirts with the girls, keeps the hot-blooded younger fellers in their place, and finally goes up against the bad guys in the last reel...
Harvard then proceeded to reel off three consecutive decisive wins to come within two points of the Tigers, 12-14. Colin Mangrum took a 7-1 decision, Mark Faller won, 12-5, and sophomore Richie Starr dominated his opponent for an 8-1 victory...
...Tower of Babel is another story high, thanks to the fledgling audio cassette industry. No longer content to simply reel out taped renditions of a Rolling Stones goldie or a Bing Crosby oldie, the new versions of the handy cassettes are sounding out on everything from money management to marriage counseling, evangelical sermons to menopausal symptoms...