Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just the first week of the 1996-97 school year, there is some indication that the newly randomized Class of 1999 is trying to shake things...
...think this event will shake up what those outside the house think of the event, more than it will change what the residents think," Boulware says...
...convinced that the editors have a hidden agenda. They obviously weren't satisfied with Harvard's being number one six years in a row. So they decided to shake things up a bit, change things around, make the public take notice--and they decided to put Yale first and Princeton second. The ruse is made even more effective and ironic by the recent appointment of James M. Fallows '70 as editor of the magazine. (He claims he had nothing to do with the decision...
Then the ranging begins. Ranging is when the nurse stretches out his arms, legs and fingers to retain their flexibility and elasticity. Often his limbs will fight against the exercise. His hands will quiver, his legs will shake. "The nurse will take my leg out to one side," he says. "He's fighting to hold the knee down and the foot up. Then he'll bring it back to the middle and fight to bring my knee up to my chest. My whole leg is fighting, the foot flapping. But he holds on. You can hear the joints crunch...
...then Gil commits a violent crime (he thinks it will help Bobby shake a batting slump) and abducts the ballplayer's son (he also thinks the man needs a lesson in humility). Since these plot twists exceed any motivations offered, De Niro's performance begins to seem more a matter of well-practiced gestures than real conviction, and the long, silly finale more an exercise in empty panache by director Tony Scott than a truly gripping suspense piece involving people we care about...