Word: thrustingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard put a scare into the Green machine with a marvelously engineered fourth quarter drive. John Tuke pulled Harvard to within striking distance (21-13), by capping the sustained thrust with a seven-yard...
Muscatine and Thal, who took first place in the Greater Boston Tournament two weeks ago, will team up again in the Cliffe's first doubles slot while Sally Roberts will lead the singles thrust...
...Italian life. Even on a desert island the lovers must reproduce the warped roles of their society; the only type of relationship they can have is master to slave, since Gennarino's anger and Raffaella's masochism are so deeply rooted in their characters. If this were truly the thrust of the film, Swept Away would be a compelling feminist film effectively connecting sex and politics...
...such a sympathetic reading runs aground on the love story which comprises the second half of the film. Once Raffaella accepts subjugation, in a cathartic scene where she kisses Gennarino's feet after he has symbolically thrust a stake through a skinned rabbit, the comedy is dissipated. Using the graceful closeups which distinguish her style, Wertmuller evokes the intensity and eroticism of a great love affair so subtly and effectively as to make Last Tango in Paris seem like a mouthwash commercial. The subjective gaze of the camera and the expressive interaction of the actors combine to compel the audience...
Holding himself stiffly in his sashed and braided blue uniform, Generalissimo Francisco Franco stepped out onto the balcony of the Royal Palace overlooking Madrid's Plaza de Oriente. Instantly, the human sea of 150,000 faithful down below him thrust right arms forward in salute. Then the crowd launched into Face to the Sun, the anthem of the right-wing Falangist shopkeepers and tradesmen who sided with Franco when he began his bloody struggle for power 39 years ago and have been unswerving in their support of him ever since. Franco spoke only three minutes in his thin, barely...