Word: slither
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...ones in the cast -- Carter, Ken Page and Armelia McQueen -- are just as fleshily beguiling as before. They jiggle and strut with weighty grace unseen since the heyday of Jackie Gleason. The skinny ones -- Andre De Shields and Charlaine Woodard -- stomp and slither like sticks turning into snakes. The years have changed nothing except to add emotional texture. McQueen is still cute, but now conveys heartache beneath. De Shields has ripened from Superfly sleekness into a leading man's virility. The biggest change is in Carter, whose widely publicized battles with weight, cocaine and star-size ego have enriched...
...like how to move quickly and slowly--really basic things," says Citystep instructor Magdalena Hernandez '90. The movements gradually become more complicated, she says. The children pretend to be different animals including a borsch bear which is a really heavy movement", a "cool cat", a "slithery snake where they slither across the floor" and a "fierce fox where they run and jump...
Schuerman is terrific as the pathetic officer. He seems to slither across the stage with the energy and angst of one self-posessed by his own lousy fate. Karnow's daffyness also brings life to the misguided Poet, who does not understand the meaning of truth (the way most Poets...
...crucial element in the success of That's Life! There is always a strong temptation in pictures of this ilk to provide the stars with thumping self-recognition scenes. But if the scales finally fall from Harvey's eyes, they do not clang loudly to the floor but slither there ambiguously. Although Gillian surely understands that she is a kind of human sponge, sopping up all her family's messy emotional spillovers, the script never gives her the sort of revolutionary speech that would make a feminist stand up and cheer. Such words would be out of character and would...
Somehow Mengele managed to slither out of the noose. Even more astonishing, he also apparently slipped out of the hands of U.S. Army counterintelligence agents two years later. Last November the Wiesenthal Center obtained from the U.S. Army a previously confidential report revealing that Mengele had been briefly in the custody of U.S. operatives in Vienna. After being grilled on the abduction of 20 Jewish children from Auschwitz, Mengele was apparently let go, for reasons still unknown...