Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film's documentary-style depiction of the prison's multiracial social strata and daily routine is fascinating, but it is Short Eyes' title character who gives the film its thrust. "Short Eyes" is prison slang for child molester, the one kind of felon all the others deplore, and when Prisoner Clark Davis (Bruce Davison) arrives at the Tombs, the moral and emotional tensions of the cell block are brought into powerful relief. Like Eugene O'Neill's Iceman, Davis is a crackerjack theatrical device; thanks to Davison's finely shaded performance, he is also...
...choreographer does indeed know his nation and its people. Nevertheless, the thoroughly English writer relies a bit too heavily on foreign literary sources. Turgenev is a longtime enthusiasm, and Balzac is a novelist toward whom he is idolatrous. The Frenchman, insists Le Carré, is unparalleled for "sheer narrative thrust: everything has a material connection. There's no style, just fact, fact, fact." He has a special affection for an imagined cast: "I can see myself, like Balzac, inquiring after them on my deathbed." Such admiration can be as seductive?and as lethal?as a spy's gentleness. For despite...
With Harvard's best offensive thrust thus nullified, the defense, led on this day by captain Steve Kaseta (if Kaseta isn't The Coop's "Player of the Week" then no one deserves a rebate), had to hold the fort. In so doing it performed admirably, but on this day perfection was required...
...Malay medicine man who is accused of turning into a weretiger to commit murder, and in a chilling description of the noxious Midnight Horror tree: "The flowers are pollinated by bats which are attracted by the smell and, holding to the fleshy corolla with the claws on their wings, thrust their noses into its throat; scratches, as of bats, can be seen on the fallen leaves the next morning...
...issue of the canal was thrust into the last presidential campaign when G.O.P. Contender Ronald Reagan denounced the proposed treaty as a "giveaway." Jimmy Carter also pledged never to surrender "complete or practical control" of the canal. But once Carter was in office, he put the treaty near the top of his agenda. He named Diplomat-Lawyer-Businessman Linowitz to the U.S. negotiating team. As a former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, Linowitz, 63, had pleased and impressed Latin Americans. Moreover, he firmly believed in a new treaty...