Word: slipping
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...Mits. A renegade biker leads Travis to a drugged producer filming balloon races. On location, he narrowly escapes a mob attack on the crew-seems the technicians had been using local teenagers for a series of porno video tapes. Predictably, their leader, a villain named Dirty Bob, manages to slip through some elaborate defenses and tracks McGee to his opulent houseboat, the Busted Flush. The result is one of MacDonald's King Kong vs. Godzilla confrontations that deliver a soul-satisfying amalgam of mayhem and justice...
...goes for ten or fifteen minutes. Total strangers confronting total strangers, making nervous small talk with artificial poise, watching through narrow eyes for the wrong color of socks, a grammatical slip or affectation, a pun or wisecrack in questionable taste. Then...
...second-term classes, was a crisp, late-winter Michigan afternoon. Exams would start Monday, but many Michigan State University [MSU] students had more important things on their minds. More than 500 undergraduates stood outside the Administration Building, carrying signs and chanting slogans. University President M. Cecil Mackey tried to slip in unnoticed through a back door, but the protesters spotted him and chased...
...stop dead in its lycanthropic tracks while a man turns oh-so-slowly into a werewolf-twice. Though The Howling is doing big business with the women-in-jeopardy crowd, it will add no luster to its makers' reputations. Mark this one off as a Sayles slip...
...other hand, Powell criticized the press for being too lenient with the Reagan administration. "The press must be careful not to let the president slip by. Reagan has been very successful at this." He pointed to Reagan's accelerated decontrol of oil prices as an issue he feels the press should have addressed in more detail...