Word: shaking
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...film directors of eccentric renown to take the title but not the plot of a '50s exploitation epic from the vault of American International Pictures and, on a miserly budget of $1.3 million, spin a hip variation on it. So Allan Arkush (Rock 'n' Roll High School) picked Shake, Rattle and Rock; Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat) selected Cool and the Crazy; Joe Dante (Gremlins) chose Runaway Daughters; Uli Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn) took Confessions of a Sorority Girl; William Friedkin (The Exorcist) got Jailbreakers; Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused) chose Reform School Girl; Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary) took Dragstrip...
...first look at "Voodoo" comes, of course, from the jacket. The cover shows a primitive, zombie-like figure in the midst of a Mick Jagger-like shake of the hips. Inside are red-tinted, run-of-the-mill candid shots of Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood, looking about as old as the Moody Blues. Then again, Keith has looked like that for the last twenty years...
...mean streets, digging up leads, performing traditionally reporterly duties. The commercial is, of course, completely staged. Williams rarely leaves the studio (and never without a full entourage of producers, assistants, writers, etc.); his main talent is the ability to read large electronic type fluently and the cluck his tongue, shake his head or giggle at the appropriate times. Williams, like his fellow "news" people, should take a cue from the old Tylenol ad, and open the broadcast with a little bit of truth: "I'm not a reporter, but I play...
...believe lawmakers who are reluctant about Clinton's plan will change their mind once the public focuses on the debate later this summer and begins pressuring Congress to act. The all-or-nothing strategy, however, causes moderate Democrats like Breaux, whose support for a final bill is critical, to shake their head. "Legislating is finding the middle," he says. "You can't transfer an all-or-nothing strategy into the legislative process. It seldom works...
...Kidder, Peabody & Co. head Michael Carpenter was replaced by two GE executives as parent company General Electric tried to redeem the securities firm's stained image. The management shake-up followed a bond scandal in which a Kidder trader was accused of misreporting $350 million to bolster his bonus, as well as a projected second-quarter loss of up to $30 million...