Word: reelingly
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...introduce the show and warm up the audience, a reel of highlights was played before the panel discussion. The audience joined in with the on-screen figures and sang along with "Rubber Ducky," "I Love Trash," remaining silent during the segment concerning Mr. Hooper's death...
...movie romance, we're on a major losing streak. For we live in a world where all the old dramatically and comedically interesting barriers to love's fulfillment have tumbled. Class, race, religion, all the things that used to keep a man and woman apart until the final reel--and even sometimes through eternity--have lost their potency. Or, to put the point a little more carefully, in a time when the very idea that society actually contains implacable opposites is--smokers and nonsmokers aside--officially discouraged, it's hard to think of anything that might give plausible pause...
...game with runners at first and second and one out, Penn's David Corleto ripped a shot into the right-centerfield gap that had two-run double written all over it. But Ralph sprinted from his usual spot in shallow center, stuck out his glove and made a highlight-reel, back-to-the-plate basket catch that had everyone scratching their heads in awe, vividly recalling in what World Series they had seen such theatrics before...
...promote Primary Colors [CINEMA, March 16]. Joe Klein's book was never more than a trashy attempt to capitalize on his so-called inside knowledge of the Clintons and the seedy side of presidential campaigning. But you have dignified this trash with your outrageous comparisons ("real life, 1992" vs. "reel life, 1998") and brutal attempts to make the character of the fictitious presidential candidate seem to be a clone of Bill Clinton. Where is your responsibility as journalists? Have you no shame? ROSALIE ZWAIN Rancho Mirage, Calif...
...success in one pursuit or the other come all too late. A friend of my father's once intended to take a still-frame photo of his face every day for 50 years using a movie camera. The idea was, as I understand it, to eventually play the entire reel from beginning to end, and thus watch oneself age a half-century in several minutes. I'm not sure if he ever carried through with the plan, whether in fact he is dutifully snapping a picture of his face every morning...