I was eager to join the surging masses and abandon my cellular company of four years, Sprint PCS, for the potentially greener pastures of T-Mobile, a decision that had everything to do with poor customer service and absolutely nothing to do with Catherine Zeta-Jones.
"The running of surging masses on fire with anger, the running of a child doing his best to hold back tears until he reaches his house, the running of a heroine who has forsaken everything but the desire to flee being able to show wonderful ways of running, running that expresses the very act of living, the pulse of life, across the screen would give me enormous delight.
Set in an unidentified city in prerevolutionary Russia, "Strike" begins with a quote from Lenin, suggesting that the film's intent is to provide a handbook on labor organization for the surging masses.
When the soldiers swarm through the trees, eager to get onto the ark (it has begun to drizzle), they recall the surging masses of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
By 1999, Carrey was one of the biggest movie stars on the planet; he'd worked as a standup comedian for more than fifteen years before surging to mass popularity, in 1994, with the gross-out comedy "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective," which was followed by a string of hits in a similar vein.
Andrei Ujica opens this found-footage documentary with smeary color images of that former Romanian dictator shortly after his arrest in 1989 and then cuts to stark, silent, gripping black-and-white images, shot from on high, of thousands of people massing, surging and running in 1965, when Ceausescu's predecessor, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, died.
Drawing its name from the marchers' French-language refrain of "Get out!" the show featured photos of the masses surging along Avenue Habib Bourguiba.
One of the things that moviemakers dream of is the excitement of capturing the sheer flux of life, the interaction of many motions, large and small say, a mass of people surging forward (in war, revolution, or just getting to work), and, within that mass, the movements of a few individuals (lovers, murderers, executives late for an appointment).
One of the things that moviemakers dream of is the excitement of capturing the sheer flux of life, the interaction of many motions, large and small — say, a mass of people surging forward (in war, revolution, or just getting to work), and, within that mass, the movements of a few individuals (lovers, murderers, executives late for an appointment).
The released mass surged down the 600 m long 10° mountain slope, which was covered by grass in the upper part and by forest in the lower part, and the flow direction then changed perpendicularly after clashing into the cliff on the left side of the Stava Creek (Fig. 3b).
On a week when violent protests broke out in Greece and Spain against tighter austerity measures and surging unemployment, and after other mass demonstrations in normally tranquil Portugal, Mr. Samaras warned the international community to pay close attention to "this new social phenomenon" sweeping Europe.
