Word: crushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...electrified fence. Max (Richard Gere) and Horst (David Dukes) must carry heavy rocks from one side of the prison yard to the other, drop them in a pile and then carry them back. This task of inspired idiocy is designed not only to break their bodies but to crush their minds and spirits. Their crime: being homosexuals...
...given to brisk interior monologues, like "Help!" or "Watch it Tallulah!" Stoppard has given her a tasty collation of epigrams, and her delivery is succulent. Of her one-night London stand with Wagner, she notes that "hotel rooms constitute a separate moral universe." She develops a sensual fantasy crush on Milne and is heart-wrenchingly crushed when he is killed. Seductively comic, and amusingly seductive, Smith must challenge the aggressive charmlessness of Broadway's ANTA Theater, a house to which she rightly objected. Playing the ANTA stage is like pitching a tent in the Sahara. If the agile firm...
...second slot, freshman Jackie Corrigan overcame some initial hitters to crush her opponent...
...thus it has acquired a revolutionary tinge. Excited by that combination, roaring crowds numbering in the tens of thousands surrounded the embassy. Their frenzy was so great that even the youths occupying the embassy urged the mob through loudspeakers to calm down. Dozens of people fainted in the crush and were passed unconscious over the heads of the throng to waiting ambulances. A number of demonstrators wore the kafan, the Islamic burial shroud, to proclaim their willingness to become martyrs. One group carried a large cardboard effigy of Carter, depicting him as Satan, with fangs, and a scythe dripping blood...
...about all those crooks and stealing in government, Senator?" boomed an oldtimer. "I'm against them," Dole shot back with a wry grin. "Here, Mark. Get my picture quick!" yelled a young blond named Susie, tossing an Instamatic to her boyfriend. She fought her way through the crush of oglers around Crane until she was at the candidate's side. Crane was saying something important about the Ayatullah and lack of leadership, but it seemed to be lost on Susie and others...