Word: snarls
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...routine about visiting Africa is recycled from Live on the Sunset Strip; the warmup baiting of the audience was done in Live in Concert; the junkie serenade recalls Pryor's role in his 1973 melodrama Some Call It Loving. It can also be tough to maintain your underdog snarl when you've just signed a movie contract worth $40 million. (This is a pose Pryor's sassy "godson," Eddie Murphy, avoided in his delirious HBO concert last month, the better to strut his glitter and gift for mimicry.) But even back-burner Pryor is hot enough. Savor...
...Bruce Cabot) and their entourage visit a remote Pacific island to make a nature picture. The natives seize Fay Wray, tie her up as a sacrifice to their god, King Kong. He is a gigantic whatnot resembling an ape, 50 feet tall, equipped with large teeth and a thunderous snarl. He picks up Fay Wray in one hand as though she were a frog and shuffles off through the jungle, breaking trees and grunting...
...Everyone involved in the implementation of registration for the draft knew that no such thing was going to happen. Such bald exaggerations may have been intended to scare non-registrants into going to the post office, but they undoubtedly also served to cover for the bureaucratic snarl between the agencies...
...nation's nuclear power industry is already reeling from cost overruns, widespread public doubts and a snarl of ever changing Government regulations. Last week it was dealt another blow: the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 9-to-0 decision, upheld a California moratorium enacted in 1976 that bans certification of new nuclear facilities until the Federal Government finds a way to dispose permanently of the plants' highly radioactive waste products. The ruling, which affects only future construction, opens the door for wider state involvement...
...about 8:30 a.m. last week, a burgundy Ford station wagon and a white Dodge escorted by two police motorcycles pulled away from Mexico City's southern suburb of Coyoacán. The modest motorcade traveled unobtrusively, inching along in the morning rush hour's endless traffic snarl and dutifully stopping at every traffic light. Finally, about 30 minutes later, it would arrive at the massive and ornate National Palace. A short, handsome figure with graying hair at his temples would emerge: it was the new President of Mexico, Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. Unlike his predecessor...