Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice sounds like an air-raid siren with adenoids. The face, a passably good copy of a pickle, is caught between a snarl and a smile, the snarl usually winning out. "You are not talking with just anyone's fool," she snorts indignantly. "I am a high school graduate." Who could doubt that Ernestine, the world's most famous telephone operator, has her diploma-or that Lily Tomlin, her creator, is the funniest, most inventive comedienne to come along since Elaine...
Even when they stay in their parks, the macaques have become rather disagreeable. Half tame, half wild, they mingle with park visitors, snarl at them, and delight in running away with food packages left on benches. "Once having tasted the amenities of human society," observes Kunihiko Shirai, "they feel they must continue to have them. no matter what...
...this movie, unclear about the difference between suspense and brutality. For some heavy atmospherics, he has Norah's apartment festooned with African masks. For shock he lingers lovingly over close-ups of newly decapitated heads. Whenever he needs some tension, he brings on Actor Perry King to snarl, suggest acts of elaborate sadism and terrify the children. Shirley MacLaine's performance is very good but, under these sorry circumstances, pretty much wasted...
...still crude and imprecise in comparison. As a result, runways are overcrowded on the ground, air lanes are jammed aloft. Particularly near airports, spacing between aircraft is often so hard to control that near-misses are dangerously familiar. Is there any solution in sight for the growing air-traffic snarl...
...Westmoreland, then commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, forecast a future of automated wars "featuring almost instantaneous application of lethal firepower." Much of the air war is now automated and instantaneous. B-52s move in an electronic "bubble" generated by Rivet Ace, a highly classified system designed to snarl the latest model enemy missile radars. Fighters flying as low as 200 feet can be programmed to jerk into a sudden, evasive barrel roll the moment they are picked up by SAM radar. Over enemy infiltration routes, AC-130 Spectre gunships lay down a barrage of fire when the presence...