Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...information supplied by the Chicago police laboratory had been faulty. Also, some of the evidence would have been inadmissible because of the method by which it was obtained. But Hanrahan's explanation, like the entire police account of the incident, was clouded by elisions and puzzling inconsistencies. Bobby Rush, Illinois Panther chief, seized on the statement to charge that the incident was not "a shootout, it was a shoot...
...film refuses to take sides with its characters, it adopts a firm stand toward its actors: it is against them. Producer-Director Richard Rush sets his cast at shriek level. Even the elegant Candice Bergen, who at last seems ready to break through plaster casting (The Magus, The Adventurers), is given too much to yell and not enough to say. Elliott Gould is a natural clown; his hands are an act in themselves, and his hair seems to be coiling for a strike. Yet only once does Getting Straight allow him an original scene. At the oral exam...
...interesting result of the rush to send many men for physicals in a short period of time seems to be that the "flunk-out" rate has increased. Army bases in Boston, Colorado, San Francisco and other cities report a rejection rate greater than fifty percent. Perhaps this is a good time to have a physical...
...position, the others adjust theirs to accommodate the new "over-the-shoulder" relationship. Walking directly behind somebody is usually saved for congested sidewalks, when the person ahead is used as a sort of blocking guard. Hurrying through a crowd alone is often more tiring than timesaving. "To beat the rush-hour mob in New York," says Wolff, "you have to dance like Nureyev...
Every day, he'd rush home in time for American Bandstand at 8 p.m., and then one Saturday night he went to see Eddie Quinteros and Annette on the Dick Clark Show. Spider still had his IFIC button. As Spider walked up Quincy Streak, a tear skidded down his face. He wondered where Annette...