Word: stalk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good ear for dialogue. In one scene Mary's 14-year-old daughter tries to sweet-talk Mom into letting her and a friend go to the movies. Mary figures out the ruse and turns them down. "Told you it wouldn't work," says the daughter as they stalk out of the room. Snaps the friend: "Well, you set it up wrong." TV's First Father himself, Bill Cosby, might admire the family insights displayed in the season's best new sitcom...
...base open, New York Mets Manager Davey Johnson is at the mound telling Gooden to walk Pedro Guerrero, who earlier hit a home run. Mapping tactics with the infielders, Johnson has scarcely a word for Gooden, the 6-ft. 3-in. centerpiece of the team. He is a slender stalk from Florida, a righthander. Even in repose, the impression of him is mostly arms and legs. As long ago as last November, he was a teenager...
...project hopes to raise a total of as much as $100 million, with at least $15 million coming from the sale of souvenir shirts. The fake merchandise has turned up in cities all across the U.S. Some of the bogus shirts can easily be spotted because a wheat-stalk symbol appears in the first letter of the word Africa instead of the last one. In many cases, the offending merchants have been turned in by consumers. Says Cooper: "People are absolutely outraged at this thing...
Siskel "How about Part 12: night of the Living Jasons,where he learns asexual reproduction and thousands of his clones stalk the woods of West Burbank, California...
When the policeman's widow, a librarian named Marcella (Helen Mirren), is pointed out to Cal, he begins slyly, shyly to stalk her. Whether he seeks love or absolution-or merely to assess the damage done another victim of the act he abetted-he could not say. And the movie is resolute in its refusal to speak for him or, indeed, for anyone caught in the narrative web it constructs out of loosely woven naturalistic fibers. As it demonstrates through its minor figures the stupefaction that permanent conflict imposes on its victims, the film permits Cal to draw closer...