Search Details

Word: sacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Sack 57 is the only movie theater in Boston showing the film, whose budget has been estimated at $42 million--the most expensive in film history. A spokesman for the theater said yesterday that Sack 57 has not sold advance seats, but added she does anticipate long lines. The theater has not increased security because the staff can handle the crowds, she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Star Trek' Opens Throughout Country | 12/7/1979 | See Source »

...Jossif Sack, one of six volunteer Israeli doctors at Sakaew, told Clark: "We can't figure it out. When I am treating a patient here and causing pain, everyone starts to laugh. Is there something in their personality that makes them laugh when they see people dying or in pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Pol Pot's Lifeless Zombies | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

After viewing the movie--a parody of the life of Christ--Judge John A. Pino said he would not issue a complaint for blasphemy against Sack Theaters, the chain showing the movie in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judge Says 'Life of Brian' Does Not Violate 340-Year-Old Statute Outlawing Blasphemy | 11/13/1979 | See Source »

...bore them? Bertolucci commits the ultimate cinematic crime: his film is stultifying dull. Luna excites little besides yawns and the desire to leave the theater. By the time Jill Clayburgh has mouthed her last aria, most of the audience at the Sack Cheri were long gone. Approximately two hours, Luna seems an eternity spent in limbo. Hell, in the form of a truly low-grade bad movie would have been more exciting...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Mooning Over Mom | 11/2/1979 | See Source »

Predictably, Jessica reappears, dressed to seduce the Ayatollah. On the brink of luring Potter into her motel-room sack, she sings again--a cockroach doing Donna Summer. But bitchy glamour appeals to Potter; he wants to try life with Jessica again. In a bizarre scene meant to symbolize his anxiety about leaving Marilyn, Potter hyperventilates on a Bloomingdale's couch. This sequence seems to perplex Reynolds most of all. He looks lost portraying a character who has no control of his emotions...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: One Sings, the Other Two Don't | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

Previous | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | Next