Word: skulling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...execute 150 separate motions, including wrinkling his nose, furrowing his brow and delicately crooking his long fingers. It was not feasible to cram all the necessary machinery into one model, so Rambaldi built three: one with mechanical controls, Rambaldi holds an early model of E.T.'s skull mostly for large body movements operated with cables from a distance of about 20 feet, another with electronic controls, for subtler articulation, and a third with a combination of control methods. Although Spielberg's organization does not like to speak of such a crudity, there was a fourth E.T., a midget...
Rambaldi's monsterpiece is about the height of a four-year-old child, with a large, lumpy, pulsating skull, a neck that extends or retracts according to mood, skin that is a very alien gray-green when E.T. is healthy, and long, marvelously graceful arms with four-digit hands. He is very strange and complex in his repertory of emotions, although he is allowed only a ten-word speaking vocabulary (his voice is that of an 82-year-old woman with some electronic distortion). He is onscreen most of the time, and he takes a firm, sure hold...
...vermin have also inherited the movie industry. In The Road Warrior, cars crash, somersault, explode, get squashed under the wheels of semis. Skinless bug-eyed corpses hurtle toward the screen. A mangy dog sups at a coyote carcass. A deadly boomerang shears off fingertips, creases a man's skull. That's entertainment? As a series of isolated incidents, no; our nerve endings have long since been numbed by the movies' aimless carnage. But as garishly precise daubs in George Miller's apocalyptic fresco, they add up to exhilarating entertainment-and a textbook for sophisticated, popular moviemaking...
...resign. After three weeks, the assistant director finally gave Kats the letter, telling him. "You'll be sorry." Two months later, as Kats was walking home one day at noon, three clean-cut young men jumped him only thirty meters from a police station. He suffered a concussion, fractured skull and broken nose. To date, the police have found no suspects...
...died from the effects of an Israeli bullet wound in his stomach. In Jerusalem, a five-year-old Arab girl was recovering from surgery after doctors removed an Israeli bullet from her brain. Elsewhere in Jerusalem, a three-year-old Israeli girl lay gravely injured with a fractured skull and was in danger of losing the sight of one eye. She had been riding in a bus when a rock thrown by an Arab demonstrator smashed through a window and struck...