Word: breathlessly
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...some of the humorous numbers. Dressed in colorful costumes from the '20s, they lifted their legs effortlessly into arabesques. The motion does not stop as the women join their partners in a finale of lunges, head rolls and turns with their arms carving angular shapes in the air. This breathless scene ended as a bell rings and a train whistle blows in the distance...
...Prince Andrew had to wait until his mother returned from a trip to Australia and New Zealand. By the time Buckingham Palace released the expected announcement on the Queen's stationery last week, a crowd had gathered outside the gates. Meanwhile, Fleet Street was in a tizzy of breathless speculation that began in January after "Fergie" was invited by the Queen to a week-long New Year's house party at Sandringham...
...breathless clip of events in the Philippines last week left President Corazon Aquino with little room for herself, both figuratively and literally. A steady string of tasks, from selecting a Cabinet and ordering up various commissions to greeting diplomats and receiving journalists, crowded her time from the moment the Marcos family fled. Malacanang Palace proved unsuitable to receive the stream of visitors because Marcos loyalists had seeded the grounds with booby traps and looters had laid waste to the living quarters. Aquino was thus forced to continue operating out of the Manila building owned by her family, which, with...
...conventions, in which players are invited to solve a mystery of the multiple-murders-in-a-mansion variety, that he allowed himself no time for dialogue or business that rises above the mechanical. Such good performers as Madeline Kahn, Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan and Martin Mull are driven breathless and charmless trying to keep up with the plot's inane demands. To amend a phrase: Who cares who killed Mr. Boddy...
Obviously curtailed by Reisz's annoying obsession with portraying "the total woman," the two are permitted to develop their intriguing love-hate relationship only at discrete intervals throughout the course of the movie. If things had been otherwise, we might have been treated to a country-style Breathless if not a Coal Miner's Granddaughter...