Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does have drawbacks. Its lightweight, plastic butt is liable to shatter in hand-to-hand combat, where the infantryman often clobbers his enemy with the stock. Moreover, its high sight -necessitated by the carrying handle that serves as the rear sighting plane-means that a dug-in rifleman must expose his head and chest to aim carefully. But the rapid rate of fire more than compensates: in Korea with the slow-firing Garand, less than one-quarter of the troops fired their weapons in battle; in Viet Nam with the M16, everyone fires copiously. Many riflemen lug 600 rounds into...
...between Romanesque stones that soothe the eye and electronic jazz that grates the ear. Tension is set up in the script, which systematically intersperses-interfuses episodes of horror and hilarity. Tension is set up by the camera, which in frame after frame lets the danger lurk just out of sight until the onlooker feels like a man cooped up with a cobra he cannot...
...Olds-mobile 442, which squats near the main entrance. If the girl doesn't catch your eye, the color of the car will. "Lemon-lime luster" is very much like citric acid to the eye. It smarts. It glares. It offends. It's guaranteed to prevent scurvy on sight. The girl's nice, however. Her lines almost mitigate the lines she sings; like "442 -- the Groovy-go machine that will tickle your taste buds for action!" "And inside," she promised, "there are goodies galore." G-g-golly...
Director Tim Hunter has given Forum plenty of sight-gags and a Burlesque flavor, the two prerequisites for getting boffs. But you laugh hardest when the pace is fastest, and it moves like the Marx Brothers whenever Steve Kaplan, Arthur Friedman, Robert Bush, (or any combination of them), are on stage. Kaplan is the funniest Roman of them all, and he plays the conniving lead, Pseudolus, with deadly timing, a rubber face, a protean voice, and a Stoic endurance of pratfalls. His is a virtuoso performance, and at one point his delivery of a line stops the show cold. When...
...make them think we're the Mexican army," muses Marvin, plotting strategy after his tight-lipped raiders have secretly witnessed the bandidos justice, meted out bullet by bullet beside the tracks to a whole trainload ol captured Federales. Keeping the good guys and bad guys sharply in his sight at all times, Director Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry) sets up a neat surprise or two and shows a marksman's instinct for knowing what to do with all that awesome western scenery-he pumps i full of high-gauge performances, guts ingenuity, flaming arrows, dynamite anc hot lead...