Word: twitches
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Mills gives me a cue to flick the two joysticks that make my deer's head swivel and her tail twitch from 50 yds. away. This would be easier if not for the camouflage hat the officers gave me. With a curtain of dangling burlap strips, it looks like Bob Marley has joined a militia. My doe's head may be spinning around like something out of The Exorcist for all I know. I can't see through the dreadlocks. The driver may not know whether to lock and load or call a priest. But he's still watching...
...argue this as a wondrous stimulation and expansion of democracy. On the other hand, the hair-trigger modem, wired directly to the adrenal glands and needing only a finger twitch to hit SEND, encourages a certain violence of opinion--impulsiveness that hardens more quickly than before into dogmatism. Once you've sent it, you're committed to it; you've got to defend it. On almost any subject--gay scoutmasters, say, or capital punishment or abortion--Americans tend to accelerate at unnatural speeds toward absolutes and sort themselves into fierce tribes to defend the absolute they've chosen...
...happens to everyone, even Ivy Leaguers: the sweaty palms, the nervous twitch, the frantic sideways glances, the stuttering. Your reputation as a human being is at stake, and your mind conveniently decides to go blank...
...Sweatshirt Boy's face will twitch slightly, as he reduces the game window on his monitor with gusto. He prides himself in having the power to perform a keyword search for "pornography...
...Frankenheimer proves once again why he's the master of the thriller. His urgent pacing keeps the action flowing and the adrenaline pumping, and his love of tight super-tight close-ups allows the audience to catch every suspicious eyebrow twitch and follow every devious glance. The dead Santa in the opening scene sets the gritty tone that pervades the film, and serves as a less-than-subtle reminder that violence and suspense-thrillers go hand in hand. Fittingly, action abounds throughout the course of the story, culminating in the climactic heist scene at the casino. The grittiness is enhanced...