Word: rushing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Which is fitting, because Gene Hackman paces through this film like a rush hour shadow, mustached and anonymous, sitting in his car playing magnetic chess, inconspicuous in a plain coat and tie. Hackman works wonders with a part like this: when he isn't cast as the big blustering shove-around of Popeye Doyle or Scarecrow, or squandered in a mistake like The Poseidon Adventure, he's our best interpreter of the middle-class presence: not the hero, or the anti-hero, but the unhero, making his own blind...
...Chicago, the 1,500-member Coalition of Concerned Women in the War on Crime has launched Operation Whistlestop. When they spot trouble, residents of certain high-crime areas rush to the scene, blowing their whistles. In lower Manhattan, some 135 residents of the East Third Street Block Association are being given a pocket device to carry on the street. When activated, it will set off a loud alarm attached to a nearby building, alerting neighbors to call the police...
Horns blaring raucously, swarms of cars and taxis swirl madly around the South Gate, an old entryway into the raffish, jostling metropolis of Seoul, South Korea. Throngs of Korean, American, European and Japanese businessmen pile into cabarets and assorted pleasure domes. Then, just before midnight, the pleasure seekers rush home to beat the midnight curfew, and the lights start winking out. A few miles away, villagers desert quiet country lanes for tile-or thatch-roofed cottages. And a few miles beyond that, perhaps an hour's drive from the teeming capital and its 6.5 million people, U.S. and South...
...Last week, at a mass rally of 12,000 of the faithful at Chicago's McCormick Place, Elijah's son and successor, Wallace D. Muhammad, made it official: the race-hatred theme is being shelved. Whites will even be permitted to join the sect, though no rush of recruits is expected. Said Wallace: "We have caught hell from the white man for 400 years, but we have grown to where if the white man respects us, we will respect...
...attempt to cope "with a situation deteriorating on several fronts at once." The infectious gloom of the Basel moneymen spread to the London stockmarket, killing any hopes for an upsurge in the wake of the pro-Market landslide. The day after the B.I.S. report was issued, there was a rush of Arab petrodollars out of London and the pound fell to a record low, 25.9% below the Smithsonian-agreement level of 1971. Meanwhile, new figures published last week showed that investment in manufacturing industry is now dropping at the unprecedented annual rate...