Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lucky, the President will become a peace addict. Those who watched the applause sweep over Ronald Reagan after last week's speech on nuclear arms reduction thought they detected a new glint in his eye. He had received a needed fix. Peace is fun. Peace is box office. Peace diverts critics. Peace is good...
...automatic experiments perched in the shuttle's open cargo bay worked, at least to some degree, performing various types of remote-sensing of the earth. The most successful machine was the big shuttle imaging radar, called SIR-A, which succeeded in making the longest single radar sweep in the history of earth-sensing, gathering one series of pictures over a 10,000-mile-long track, stretching from Spain to Australia...
Although sitting the bench for a few games at the start, sophomore Code quickly established himself as a quality defenseman, and moved in alongside Fusco early in the year. His forte is a consistent, and occasionally spectacular ability to sweep the puck away from opposing forwards...
...every reaction shot, every unfinished phrase or repeated sentence means that many moments stolen from the Doctorow overview. Forman has taken as gospel the novel's epigraph-Scott Joplin's admonition, "It is never right to play ragtime fast"-reduced a pageant to an anecdote, and sacrificed sweep for nuance. Grateful as one is to have this Ragtime, with its many thrilling performances and its spurts of emotional grandeur, one would now like to see the adaptation Altman might have made. And after that, if you please, the silent version. -By Richard Corliss
Hers was a fervor that transcended sex; to a '30s movie audience it may have looked threatening, even mannish. She was the most aggressive and patrician of the '30s liberated ladies, and moviegoers wanted some extraordinary ordinary guy to sweep her off her pedestal and bring her down to earth. In the '30s that man was Gary Grant, a spirit as blithe as Hepburn's and a lot breezier. In the '40s and beyond, it was Spencer Tracy, the stolid, sensitive man of whom Laurence Olivier said: "I've learned more about acting from watching Tracy than in any other...