Word: squirmingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only Stallone's mother will forgive him for Paradise Alley. The movie has all the flaws of Rocky--the truisms, the sentimentality that could make a soap-opera addict squirm--and none of its strengths. The innocence has been replaced by a blatant attempt to cash in on Rocky's success. Rocky has gone Hollywood...
WOODY ALLEN COULD have cashed in his chips in a very big way after Annie Hall. He could have stopped making movies, could have stopped being an anxious, nervy little guy who makes people squirm while they laugh, could have given up on his artistic angst. He might just have just put his feet up, smiled at his rows of Oscars, and lived like a sheik for the next hundred years...
...trademark of Lady Be Good; the dialogue and the musical numbers are quantum leaps apart in quality and content. In the first act, the dumbness of the transitions probably can't be--and certainly weren't--covered up. After the title song, the women chorus members are forced to squirm off stage in a clump, giving one mutual twitter with all the naturalness of a concerted burp. There are fewer transition problems in the second act, probably because there are fewer transitions. Once the background has been rather slowly introduced in the first act, the denouement melodically takes place...
...states that will not sign such agreements, and no punitive measures can be taken against them, enforcement is impossible. A number of countries, notably Libya, South Yemen, Iraq, North Korea and Cuba, provide terrorists with money, arms or a haven; they seem to enjoy watching the industrial democracies squirm. Tough anti-terrorist resolutions have been presented at the United Nations; they usually suffer endless delays and are then emasculated. Following Lufthansa Pilot Schumann's death, Derry Pearce, president of the International Federation of Airline Pilots Association, threatened a worldwide two-day pilots' strike unless the U.N. finally acted against skyjacking...
Mary Hoyt, Rosalynn Carter's assistant, is quite firm in her conviction that not a single martini has been mixed in the White House since the Carters arrived. It was Rosalynn, after all, who said out loud that she really enjoyed seeing "people kind of squirm" because there was no liquor served in the White House...