Word: slow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curb when Harry hollered out, 'Hey, Billy, come here." " Almeida heard the shotgun blast and Logan cry out, "Oh, my God!"There was another shot, said Almeida, then Aleman got out and fired a third time. When Aleman got back into car, Almeida testified, he said, Drive slow. He's gone...
Powell is a fatalist who knows that hard knocks are never very far away. "To expect the worst is not to be disappointed," he says. Considering himself close to his peak of popularity, he intends to "make the downhill slide as slow as possible." In a speech at the National Press Club last month, he tried to put out some brushfires before they flare up. "What happens at the White House," he said, "is not always as serious as we think it is. We need to relax a little bit, all of us, and get a sense of perspective about...
Speed lay in little pools all over the coffee table's scarred mahogany veneer. Small white tablets, slouched in little nests, elbowing for room rolling off on to the floor. Speed. Methedrine slows everything down; people talk slower, move slower, time passes more slowly. There was a perverse logic to it--you needed more time, but the Law of the Conservation of Time prevented that, you couldn't make time. But you could stretch out the time you did have, slow it down, construct the illusion of creating more time. Everything slowed down. The perverse part was only one thing...
...crowd of Matherites was disucssing the relative virtues of that month's Raunch cover girl. The C.B. crackled and everybody laughed and the owner leaned over to point out the centerfold and Lou shivered like a man who just lost a lot of money betting on a very slow hogse with a very fast bokkie...
...presenting the story through the experiences of a few individuals--people close to Allende, a factory worker--Soto shows the nobility and courage of those who resisted the takeover and turned what was to be a bloodless coup into armed struggle. Allende and his aides die in slow motion, eerily, as if Soto wished to engrave their deaths indelibly in the audience's memory. The experiences and observations of Laurnet Furzieff, a French journalist who watches scenes in the street, the destruction of the Moneda Palace, and the grotesque rejoicing of the upper classes, lend coherence to the film. Furzieff...