Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...football it's the legs that go first, sapped of their spring and strength by season upon season of relentless battering. In baseball it's the eyes, diminished to the degree that a curve ball looks like a fast ball and there are too many called strike threes. In golf it's the nerves, causing a 3-ft. putt to look like three miles of bad road. In sports from archery to yachting, age steals away the skills, leaving nothing behind for the graying champion to embrace. Except heart...
...prospective "first Japanese woman in space" is ready to go, as are fish, newts, jellyfish and other aquatic animals. So even with 750 workers who service life-support and mechanical systems still on strike, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration vowed to launch the space shuttle Columbia on time Friday at 12:43 EDT. The strikers-- who watched scab workers file in today--walked out Tuesday because of a beef with EG&G Florida Inc., which holds NASA's $1.9 million base-operations contract.parpar
...authorities are trying to strike back. Last Tuesday, just after midnight, 20,000 soldiers and police in camouflage gear swept through several dozen Moscow hotels, businesses and banks, hoping to cripple the criminal gangs. In the meantime, citizens are afraid to go out at night; stores have difficulty keeping pistols, Mace and bulletproof jackets in stock; dinner conversations stop abruptly whenever a tail pipe backfires in the streets. "The crime problem today knows no limits," says Pavel Gusev, editor in chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets, who travels with a bodyguard. "In the U.S. your Mafia has already divided up spheres...
...West, riding out of some misty nowhsere to bring peace, justice and other good values to the American frontier. You can play him antiheroically (which is probably closer to the historical truth), as a wandering thug who, when he isn't dealing faro or looking for a gold strike, occasionally makes a living as a peace officer not entirely immune to corruption. What you shouldn't do -- especially at 3 hours and 15 minutes, a length that implicitly promises epic grandeur -- is turn his story into a solemn biopic, grinding relentlessly, without selectivity or point of view, through a rootless...
...black comedy of quirkiness and creativity. When the person Karol has agreed to kill turns out to be Mikolaj, we are not really surprised. The sense of voyeurism accomplished with Karol watching his own funeral or looking through binoculars at his ex-wife in prison do not overtly strike the viewer as unusual. But combined, these and other scenes slowly converge to form Kieslowski's unique way in which to tell his love story...