Word: slither
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Britain's May 3 elections fast approaching, Conservative Party Leader Margaret Thatcher's slashing attacks against the Labor government dominated the campaign. Speaking in Wales last week, she declared: "Change is coming. The slither and slide to the socialist state is going to be stopped, halted and turned back." All that Labor offered, she said, was "a clarion call for inertia and indolence." Ten points behind in the polls, Prime Minister James Callaghan was meanwhile giving low-key performances portraying himself as the leader who "will unite, not divide, the country...
...abrupt halt. The screenwriters have not found a way to integrate their hero's hospital shenanigans with the love story, and they build their narrative around the kind of forced farcical coincidences that went out of style with I Love Lucy. Howard Zieff, the talented director of Slither and Hearts of the West, works diligently to paper over the rough spots; he is an enviably good craftsman. Yet even he cannot rescue House Calls once it starts to become heartwarming. When a romantic montage concludes with Ann and Charley walking along a deserted beach, the movie becomes as gooey...
...through Idaho Springs and Empire, then right at the fork onto U.S. 40. Forty takes you over the Continental Divide through Berthoud Pass at 11,300 feet, and from the summit of the pass it is just a matter of not doing anything stupid on the hairpin turns that slither down the mountainside like a resting rattlesnake...
...recorded message from "the real Moses David" that called the resignation letter "nothing but a completely fraudulent and lying forgery, rather shabbily concocted by some crackpot who is apparently partially demented." It only shows, the real Moses David continued, "what slimy stinking depths our enemies do not hesitate to slither to to try to stop us, including criminal acts of kidnaping, involuntary incarceration, mental and physical torture and even murder!"* Despite resemblances to earlier letters, Moses David argues, rather convincingly, that details of the language and format in the resignation letter prove it to be a hoax...
...gestures, the rhythms and the sounds indicate an unbroken totemic relationship with animals. The members of the troupe slither like snakes, stalk like the great cat family of the jungle, stamp and trumpet like elephants. This is all done with agility, grace and energy that is breathtaking...