Word: sleek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...balky bicoastal trio prove predictably inelastic in Men's Stretch, their first class. "Men are not as flexible as women," says the instructor encouragingly. Few women are as flexible as the instructors, who are all shimmeringly sleek, exotically turned out in leotard and leg-warmer ensembles, and able to lie on their sides and circle one leg in the air hundreds of times without getting cramps...
...grounded blimp. Director Sherman is a young-old hand at this (remember Raw Meat?); he keeps the camera steady, the action terse and his cast overacting at a uniform pitch that amounts to a house style. The movie does not stint on intelligently choreographed thrills. Like a sleek, knowledgeable hooker, Vice Squad delivers...
...pacify") territory, not seize it, the determining factor in our success or failure was the level of opposition in the south; Wallace called troop infiltration to the south "the most critical factor in the war." The Vietnam era--the go-go '60s, when the computer embodied all that was sleek and modern about America--had an obsession with numbers, and Robert S. McNamara installed his B-School brand of systems analysis in the Pentagon. There, he and his elite corps tried to guide the war by the cold, hard, objective numbers...
...pleasure of watching good character men like Brian Keith, Charles Burning, Bernie Casey and the estimable Richard Libertini going pocketa-pocketa as Sharky's Machine warms up is not to be lightly dismissed. And neither is Reynolds' good sense of the way the sordid and the sleek coexist in Big City life. The man has a feel for the director's craft that could, some day, permit him to break the genre bonds that finally trip him up here...
Strauss: Waltzes, Polkas, Marches and Overtures (Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs). Felicitous music by the Strauss family in sleek readings by Karajan and the Berliners...