Word: blinking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the stunned Harvard team could blink, Garber had tallied again. Not to be outdone by her teammate, right wing Lynn Cruikshank slapped the puck into the net twice in 24 seconds...
...twilight. Abruptly she is pushed from her motorbike by one of the occupants of a closed van, abducted to a lonely place and then raped by all four of the men in the truck. This scene is long and harrowing, brutal and humiliating, and feminist Director Bellon does not blink at showing us, in excruciating detail, every moment of Nicole's ordeal. Indeed, one comes to admire the fortitude of Actress Nell in playing a scene that must have been almost as terrible to film as an actual rape would be to endure. Yet the sequence has value, revealing...
...reading "Doctors of the Death Camps" [June 25], I am reminded of how we condone in the name of science the torture and murder of thousands of monkeys, rats, etc.. every year and never blink...
...held for a half a year. upon his second release, he was brought before Premier Hassan Mansur, who tried to convince Khomeini that he should apologize and drop his opposition to the government. Khomeini refused. In fury, Mansur slapped Khomeini's face. The Ayatullah did not blink. Two weeks later, Hassan Mansur was assassinated on his way to parliament. Four members of the Fedayan Islam were later executed for the murder...
...audience shows up in the form of plot inconsistencies and editing flubs. Most glaringly, he spends about 15 minutes of the early part of the film building a subplot about Arkin's wife and her discovery of her husband's entanglement with Falk, and then drops it without a blink. This is not the stuff of entertaining movies, let alone good ones, and Hiller was lucky he had an actor as talented as Falk to save his film...