Word: streamingly
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...ending is gaspingly melodramatic and violates the stream of plausible behavior. Maddened by Fonsia's gloating shout of "Gin!" Weller takes a murderous swipe at her with his cane. When she ducks, he tries to demolish the card table in his fury. Perhaps Mike Nichols, whose unobtrusive direction is a model of purity throughout, ought to have the cane shatter on the final blow to indicate the end of this pitiable pair's relationship and of their lives. - T.E. Kalem
...Immigrants is also different from other '20s novels in that it goes beyond the roaring decade to place the era in the stream of human history. And The Immigrants extends beyond the story of Dan Lavette: he is just the character who gives the story its driving force, just as booming industry pushed America through the '20s. Fast creates many rich, three-dimensional personalities in his book--the powerful bankers, the fishermen, the couple who decide to leave the city to operate a vineyard, the girl who leaves for Hollywood in search of stardom, the man who swindles...
Mondale this week will turn visible again. He plans to make a four-day political swing through California, Kansas and Illinois. His schedule calls for at least half a dozen additional trips this fall and a steady stream of Democratic fund raisers in Washington. Ironically, as the Lance affair helped feed rumors of Mondale's falling star, the departure of Georgia's Lance makes Carter more reliant than ever on the man from Minnesota...
Lebanese leftist troops guard the bridge over the Litani, a slow-flowing, dark green stream. No sign or marker indicates that this is the "red line"; the Israelis have warned the Syrians to stay north of it. Beyond doubt, the Syrians are heeding the warning. The Lebanese troops, young, unshaven, carefully check the trunk of our car. Satisfied, they wave us on with a tired look in their eyes...
...story deals with a depraved woman, and the humiliation meted out to her seems apt. But in so doing, the director irreparably damages the flow of the narrative, and the next transition only calls attention to his oversight. Realizing that he has abandoned the intrepid detectives in the mid-stream of their investigation, Chabrol suddenly thrusts them back into the picture as a not-so-subtle afterthought. The policemen somehow fasten onto the idea that the husband--long ago presumed to have been the victim of a murder they cannot prove--might still be alive and kicking, but how they...