Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battered with jazz at the newsstand, rock at the bus stop and the diabolical thump-and-shriek of disco before and after. "Shake, shake/ Shake your booty" blares forth from one of them, but not quite in time to drown out another one that is roaring out with "Ring my bell/ Ring my bell, my bell/ Ting-a-ling-a-ling." It is as though the Great God Muzak has berserked out of the dentist's office and run amuck with all his decibels exposed. Actually, the public tranquility is being regularly murdered by that handy modern convenience...
...Spot that would not look out of place in a gallery of modern art. It also sent back new data about Jupiter's Jovian radiation fields and found a "hot spot" of plasma, whose temperatures reach 300 million to 400 million degrees C. It even discovered a thin ring of debris around Jupiter, making it the third planet in the solar system (after Saturn and Uranus) known to have such a feature...
...Thus, after sailing by its next target, Saturn, in August 1981, Voyager 2 will continue on to Uranus, more than 1.6 billion miles from earth. It will reach Uranus 4½ years later, in January 1986. Leaving Jupiter, Voyager took an edge-on look at the planet's ring, which emerged on J.P.L. TV screens as a glow-'ng white neon-like boomerang...
Shire fails to repeat her sensitive performance from Rocky; she tends to spend most of her time staring dumbly at Stallone's mashed face or dead-panning hokey lines. As a solicitous wife concerned about her husband's battered body, she had opposed his return to the ring. But for no reason, after recovering from a coma caused by complications in childbirth (little Rockies for the next movie), she tells him all she wants him to do is "Win!" Maybe it's to be expected, but you'd hope Stallone could have come up with something more believable...
...fighter finally gets a big match mostly because he and his owner are so cute and publicizable when they scream at each other in the ring. This leads to the movie's nadir, a training camp sequence in which we are asked to believe that a competent, liberated woman of our time would passively accept living quarters in an open dormitory populated entirely by the fighter's all-male staff. Streisand is, if anything, less attractive when she goes all cute and kittenish than when she is being strident and pushy...