Word: streamingly
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...stream of dreams and warnings builds to a sort of surreal slapstick that makes it difficult to see why Reve doesn't just get the hell out of Christine's beachhouse inferno. He is, infact, put in the position of playing straight man to all the outrageous "clues" the plot offers Krabbe's magnificent portrayal of a very un-straight obsession keeps the character from being an imbecile, even given the vacuous tackiness of Herman, Christine's lover and his object of lust. Herman turns out to be a German plumbing contractor who not only looks, but sounds, like...
...stream of omens and fantasies, while entertaining in itself, is too clearly just that. We're never left in doubt as to where Reve's psyche--however fevered--ends and reality begins, leading to a progression of events that is studied and deliberate; there are no tricks of perspective, no phantasmagory in Verhoeven's high-tech entertainment...
...give her story the easy-to-watch quality of a cartoon, while the explicit statement of her concerns evokes a depth which is left for the reader to supply. Reading her novel is like looking at the reflections on the surface of a slow, but full and moving stream...
L.B.J.'s Great Society gave the welfare state a mighty push. In the 1960s, benefit checks began to flow out of Washington in a stream that soon became a torrent: a nationwide food-stamp program, rent supplements for the poor, scholarships for college students, federal grants for the arts, Medicare, Medicaid, higher pensions for federal employees and veterans, subsidized low-income housing, aid to handicapped children. Despite Johnson's intention to help the helpless, middle-and even upper-income groups climbed aboard...
After years of living up to its name, Old Faithful no longer is. For the past century, the famed Yellowstone geyser in Wyoming spouted just about every 70 minutes, shooting a stream of boiling water and steam some 130 ft. into the air for two to four minutes. Now, when eruption time arrives, the geyser sometimes burps and spits for 20 or even 40 minutes. Eventually, Old Faithful blows, but on its own fickle time...