Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still plagued by bad dreams and occasionally immobilized by horrific memories of the war. The British-American intelligence team that has picked up disturbing signals from the Soviet Union is less concerned with his mental state than his still keen airman's skills. They want him to sneak into Russia, filch the futuristic fighter plane that provides the film with its title as well as its best moments, and wing it out of there. Disguises, fake papers, sly street-corner meetings in Moscow, a chase on the subway, murder in the men's room-the stuff of uncounted...
...planet. Popular sentiment in this country and in Europe has finally mounted in organized opposition to these risks. Yet beneath the rhetorical softening of American and Soviet positions lurks the firm conviction that there is greater security in the current standoff than in perhaps allowing the other side to sneak into a position of "superiority" while negotiating reductions...
...though, is in a class all by its beautiful self. Of course it should make truckloads of money: its sneak previews have been the most rapturously received since Jaws; industry marketing experts have predicted it as a summer smash; and one professional cynic emerged from a Manhattan screening of the film last week and confidently announced, "$350 million." But the gleam of moisture in his eye said something else, something everyone else will soon be able to discover: that E. T. is a miracle movie, and one that confirms Spielberg as a master storyteller of his medium...
...starting with the small scene set up in the title and relaxing the poetic structure. Wright successfully moves to and captures the complicated concept of one person's relation to a crowd of strangers. Other prose poems similarly sneak as if unintentionally from the simple to the complex. Free of the poetic structure that would hold the ideas and images to a central thread. Wright can hop from one to the next on the strength of association...
...develops a severe case of bronchitis on the following day. Violating the curfew, I bundle him up and sneak through back alleys to the doctor's house. My anxiety grows, and then I feel anger and frustration as I try to pacify my son's whining demands for candy when we pass the closed stores. Just how does one explain these things to a child...