Word: whirligigging
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...this time. Blood Simple (the title comes from Dashiell Hammett) works terse, elegant variations on a theme as old as the Fall; it subverts the film noir genre in order to revitalize it; it offers the satisfactions and surprises of a conniving visual style. Most important, it displays the whirligig wit of two young men--Joel Coen, 30, a graduate of New York University film school, and his brother Ethan, 27--in a debut film as scarifyingly assured as any since Orson Welles was just this wide...
...reads four Hebrew-language daily newspapers and the English-language Jerusalem Post. Around 8 a.m., he is whisked to his office eight minutes away in the silver Dodge that serves as Israel's official car for the Prime Minister. Then he really goes to work, a virtually nonstop whirligig of meetings throughout the morning. At 1 p.m., he tries to get away for a lunch in the kitchen at home with his ailing wife Aliza. He rests until 4, then goes back to the office for more meetings until 7 p.m. At night, he dozes only occasionally in front...
...Gold Coast whirligig is almost too good to be true for Tom and Donna Wigdahl. Tom owns an electrical contracting company in Elk Grove Village, Ill., and commutes during the November-May Florida season. They have "lots" of polo ponies and a three-bedroom villa at the P.B.P.C.C. "We've met lovely people from all over," says Donna. "From Colombia, Germany, Brazil. You don't talk about changing diapers. Between the wealth, the polo and the people, it's just been fantastic. It answers everything I want out of life. And here...
Everyone knows this plot, even if he has never seen 42nd Street in any form: how the little girl from the sticks goes on for a disabled star, saves a big musical, finds love and becomes a star herself. The little girl, this time around, is a whirligig newcomer named Wanda Richert; the laid-up star is Tammy Grimes, who puts over a song like a hybrid of Bea Lillie and Sergeant Bilko; and the hardbitten, long-suffering director is Jerry Orbach, who brings not only freshness but some unexpected bite into the show's title tune...
...second touchdown with 2:27 left in the half. First, Brown connected with Horner who went out at the Colgate 35 for a first down. Brown then carried the pigskin himself on four of the next five plays to set up a Crimson first down on the 12. Whirligig halfback Ralph Polillio then bolted up the middle and into the endzone for the six points. Bosnic's point after made the score...