Word: sidewalkers
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...Thomas sees the ghosts of mothers shuffling in the winter chill. They are emaciated from crack-cocaine binges, and their hair is wrapped in rags to hide patches where clumps have fallen out. Thomas sees them glance at the children draped carelessly on their hips, then down at the sidewalk. "A woman's eyes are a window to her soul," she says. "Those eyes tell you clear as day that they've blown their check on crack...
...prime example here is Nick Starkey (Kevin Kline), a former New York City cop and now a fireman. As Starkey, Kline has the best entrance in recent movie memory: bursting spectacularly out of a burning building, cradling the child he has rescued in his arms, he collapses to the sidewalk and calls for a cup of coffee, "preferably espresso...
...Oscar nominee (The Buddy Holly Story), had just got his Harley-Davidson out of a repair shop in Culver City, Calif., and was heading down busy Washington Boulevard, when he failed to negotiate a right turn. He skidded and was thrown from his bike, his head slamming against a sidewalk. After nearly two hours of brain surgery, he was given a guardedly optimistic prognosis...
...significant literary figure than Eliot. But quality and influence are mysteriously related, and Chandler has inspired more poses and more parodies, perhaps, than any other American writer of the century save Hemingway. Eliot merely articulated the deepest spiritual and emotional issues of the times; Chandler put them on the sidewalk...
From the opening credits (a police car's siren light cruises down a street, onto the sidewalk, into a house, through a girls' shower room) to the closing crawl (which confides, "In case of tornado, southwest corner of basement"), The Naked Gun is a picture in thrall to its own silliness. Three of the film's perpetrators, the ZAZ team, spoofed '70s disaster epics in Airplane! and spy movies in Top Secret! Now they have stolen from themselves, extending their 1982 TV series Police Squad! to feature length. The stretch marks show, in a plethora of chase scenes and bathroom...