Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough, the movie has the style and texture of an Army training film. When Dad, first learning of his infertility, asks Mom (in front of the doctor) to reassure him that he has indeed made every valiant effort, she responds with a pert, "Oh, yes, dear. You worked your tail off." This may be a small movie, but it is definitely worth hating...
...Masai herdsmen looked on in horror, the inevitable finally occurred last week: the first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Seconds after takeoff from Nairobi, Lufthansa Flight LH 540 en route to Johannesburg shuddered violently, then sank tail first from an altitude of less than 200 ft. Lufthansa reported that for reasons still not clear, the leading-edge wing flaps were not in the extended position after takeoff. Thus, the aircraft did not have enough wing lift to climb...
...camouflage. The evidence on-screen strongly suggests that The Klansman was made pseudonymously by the Snopes family, trying to cash in on the cracker-violence genre pioneered by Walking Tall. Come to think of it though, The Klansman lacks that certain Snopesian gusto. All it has is a drag-tail rankness. ·Jay Cocks
Dibbets, 36, is preoccupied with landscape: flat swaths of beach horizon, photographed in nacreous blues and grays, enlarged, tilted and cut together in the form of mountains or-in this show-the curving tail of a comet. They are, in effect, "impossible" earthworks, or sky works, meant solely as configurations on paper: a simplistic idea, but carried out with elegance...
...Mitchell, 61, had developed "a sort of father-and-son relationship with Mardian," who is 51. Thus Mardian, former head of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division, was misled by Mitchell. "Mardian was as pure as a driven snow," Bress argued. "He is dragged in at the tail end of an extensive conspiracy indictment simply because of suspicion." That brought a warning from Sirica that "you are going a little bit too far"; Mardian, after all, had been charged by a grand jury. Parkinson's lawyer, Jacob Stein, also contended that Mitchell and Mardian had deceptively...