Word: veer
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Ordinarily one tends to suspect movies that veer too radically from the intent of their original sources. But Whose Life remains true to the highest purpose of the play: to set forth with honesty, passion and wit the arguments for and against euthanasia. That one so intensely wants the Dreyfuss character to change his mind is a tribute to the actor's unquenchable vitality, and for many it may make the film more poignant. Who can doubt that it is more touching-and discomfiting-to see a man commit a good and valuable spirit to a wrong cause than...
...amazing achievement-it has been only 3 years since the sly and always hungry feline burst full-grown from the head and hand of Davis. This hero is a cat who is both thorny and funny, a rogue who somehow never crosses the line into villainy. His views veer 180° from Snoopy's gentle romanticism. "Spring is here," Garfield observes. "Big, fat, hairy deal...
...relatively cheap (as little as $2,500) bare-bones version suitable for small private aircraft, yet it will also be compatible with sophisticated versions (costing $50,000) for larger commercial aircraft. In whatever form, no assistance is needed from controllers or radar stations to determine when planes veer dangerously close...
...Inauguration. The ceremony will be held on the west side of the building this time. When the President takes his oath of office he will be lined up with the monuments to Washington and Lincoln. After he is sworn in, he will make his way up Constitution Avenue, then veer to the right up Pennsylvania toward the house that Rear Admiral Cockburn could not obliterate...
...absence of a standard "look" from play to play renders the Multiflex difficult to define or even see on a given play, but the myriad variety of combinations is the whole point: Restic will borrow sets or even entire plays from a veer, or Wishbone or Power I offenses, but will never stay with one formation long enough to allow the defense to know what to expect. As he talks about it, Restic grows animated, actually improvising a play-by-play analysis of the havoc wreaked on a defense: "The ball's coming, they don't know where...