Word: ricochet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been running on a mushy field all week in practice. It's like a giant pillow," Cavuoti said. "When we get on the turf, we'll be like Ricochet Rabbit...
Auntie Ree emerged in the early '60s as part of an impressive sorority -- soul sisters from all over. Cousin Dionne, working within the ricochet rhythms of Burt Bacharach's songs, built a brand-new bridge connecting gospel urgency to show-tune sophistication. Barbra Streisand moonlighted from Broadway and never went back. The jazz inflections of Nina Simone and Sarah Vaughan enriched the vocabulary of pop. The megaton voices of Jackie DeShannon, Dusty Springfield and Timi Yuro lent powerful shadings to love songs. And the girl groups -- all the -elles and -ettes, the Supremes and Shangri-Las -- kept teen pulses surging...
...curse. Once a play becomes the play, moviemakers like Bruce Beresford (at best an unobtrusive director of human traffic without a natural camera style) attach undue reverence to each line of dialogue. Nobody considers that words spoken in a theater may fall flat in a movie house without the ricochet rhythm provided by audience laughter; everybody concerned tiptoes through the property as if it were the Victoria and Albert Museum...
...Sikh guards in her tamarind-scented garden on a sunny October morn. She had just bid her guards "Namaste," the gracious Indian salutation accompanied by the crossing of hands before the face. Assassination may be the most invidious of terrorist acts, since the consequences can ricochet disastrously through a country and beyond. Mrs. Gandhi's death produced such a tragedy: some 2,000 Indians perished in the flames of sectarian violence that followed...
...loser from Loserville; and Mozart, he's the guy who wrote Elvira Madigan, and his first name is Mostly, isn't it? The film's $18 million budget may be less than is spent on many a teenpic flop, but it still makes Amadeus a ricochet roll of the dice; the film will have to bring in more than $40 million at the box office just to break even...