Word: shuddered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...excellent judge of quality shirtwear." Welcome to the decade of lowered expectations, which Rob Reiner's meandering direction fully satisfies. The Sure Thing aims not to blaze trails but to avoid the gross failings of its predecessors. All right, then. In teenpix a shrug is better than a shudder...
William Peacock had just finished a breakfast of Chinese beef and noodles when he felt the plane "shudder, like we were going into a mild stall." His first instinct was to return to his seat just ten feet away, but even that proved a chore. "The aircraft had started to turn a very hard left, and there was this incredible horizontal pressure pushing my entire body to the right." China Airlines Flight 006 from Taipei to Los Angeles, with 243 passengers and 25 crew members aboard, was going down. "Dishes crashed against the walls and floor," Peacock recounted. "The baggage...
...medical experiments." (This persistent line, even more egregious when pronounced in a German accent, is the one real misstep in a script which otherwise admirably achieves humor while sidestepping the truly tasteless.) Rounding out the posse is the simpering Mona Lott (Brad Daley), who has been carefully coached to shudder incontrollably when confronted with supposed witche...
...broad range of issues-arms control, trade with the Communist world, dealings with NATO allies, to name a few-Weinberger is far more hawkish than Shultz. But on the use of U.S. armed forces, the Pentagon boss reflects the views of military commanders who still shudder at the memory of Viet Nam. While the Pentagon clearly would like to see the Sandinista regime topple in Nicaragua, Weinberger has ruled out direct U.S. military involvement. Said he: "The President will not allow our military forces to creep-or be drawn gradually-into a combat role in Central America." Shultz, while...
...exaggerations, oversimplifications and outright misstatements on both sides deserve greater attention. Some of the errors might make a concerned voter shudder, since they involve the gravest issues of national policy. A partial list, beginning with the President, whose mistakes were the more numerous...