Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worm, then, is a sort of Moby Python, and young Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan) is an Ahab with a happy ending. MacLachlan, 25, grows impressively in the role; his features, soft and spoiled at the beginning, take on a he-manly glamour once he assumes his mission. Like most of the other cast members, MacLachlan delivers his speeches as incantations from an old, old testament. The actors seem hypnotized by the spell Lynch has woven around them-especially the lustrous Francesca Annis, as Paul's mother, who whispers her lines with the urgency of erotic revelation. In those moments...
...some ways, the choice of subject becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If Naipaul wants to find the worm in the apple, he is a good enough investigative reporter to do it. So readers hear about the headhunters and meet the Crocodiles. Naipaul describes his journalistic style as realistic, and he's right. But his realism is selective. There may be something rotten in Abidjan, but there's a lot of good Naipaul isn't telling us about...
Junior Paul Garavente's strike and a 40 foot underhanded worm burner by junior Rob Hawley (three goals, two assists) put the Crimson three goals up with six minutes remaining in the game...
...takes them seriously. He seeks "stories that confirm that this is a remarkable country." Over the years, Kuralt has profiled an Iowa farmer who built a yacht in his barnyard, a retired West Virginia coal miner who sculpts statuary in coal, and the arcane Florida ritual of "worm grunting," catching bait with the use of wooden stakes and truck springs. Some day, Kuralt vows, he will get around to a piece that Bleckman wants to do, about dogs that ride in the backs of pickup trucks. As it turned out, the man with the banner just missed being a story...
After a decade's experience with permissiveness, many Americans have become acutely aware that there is a worm in the apple of sexual liberation. That a community with a reputation for liberalism should decide that things have gone too far is not really news. The call for a pause in the frantic assault on the limits of decency (beyond which lies the terra cognita of what used to be taboos) is the quite natural expression of a profound disappointment with the reality, as opposed to the promise, of unrestricted freedom. There are pushes and pulls in the life...