Word: wrings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps Stallone foresaw some problems with such jejune characters. This would explain his painstaking efforts to inject some life into this insipid movie. He does anything to wring some emotion out of the audience, but the credibility and consistency of Paradise Alley suffers...
...Association, is preparing to move his people to nearby Terrebonne Parish, where he hopes officials will be more hospitable. Says Perez: "They don't understand our laws. They fish out of season. There are reports they catch seagulls, pluck them alive, and when they decide to eat them, wring their necks. Dogs - that's one of their favorite foods too. I have a friend who had a setter, and one day he came home and saw the hide sitting right out front. That's their business if they eat dogs, but they shouldn...
Director Tommy Thompson, who returns to Harvard after staging Failing here last fall, tries to wring the life from every line in the show. The technique works for a while, but is finally overwhelmed by the script's weight and wordiness (although some of the passages are truly beautiful...
...seems to have trouble with comedy. Early attempts to wring bitter laughter out of assembly-line conditions and the financial woes of the three central figures (Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto) do not entirely pay off. Still, these scenes help motivate the film's central incident, a robbery of their own union's safe in which the three turn up not the cash they wanted but a ledger hinting at various forms of venality and corruption. Their attempts to capitalize on the information are ambiguous: they would like to blackmail some money out of the union...
...America's presence in Vietnam, such as the New York Post. Though she alludes to the charges, she does not mention the most serious ones. The Post story reported that Burchett was well known to American prisoners of war in the north as the man who would try to wring phony confessions from them, using savage threats of force, and then doctoring their words for use in North Vietnamese propaganda. It would be a great understatement to say that many of the POWs retained a very lively disgust for this man, whom they thought a shameless lackey for a tyrannic...