Word: aura
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time the movie was released and Dean was becoming well-know, Dean skipped the opening party for Eden to fly back to California to make Rebel Without A Cause. He was 24, a promising though not terribly popular actor. Brando was all the rage, and had created such an aura about himself, that almost anyone else was sucked into the vaccuum...
Close-Up #2; Rebel--In the beginning of the movie, James Dean is drunk in a police station. He looks remarkably young, but has an undeniable aura of cool. Sometimes, though, it's embarrassing to watch him. During one scene he punches a desk and yells that no one understands him. More adolescence. The audience laughs...
...Sebastian over come their initial distrust and become lovers to the death. No surprise here: Antonioni is the man who made aleatory music out of monotone in L'Avventura. But there is feeling aplenty conveyed through the vibrant orchestration of color. Each character is given his own "aura"-a kind of placenta of color that indicates his passion or humor. And every time the queen's mood changes, her surroundings change too, like obedient subjects. The queen recalls her dead husband, and a bouquet in her hands turns blood red at the memory. When the lovers walk through...
...American Museum of Natural History as saying that "a judgment from the literature would put the intelligence of cats below dogs and above rats." According to another researcher, the cat "is no philosopher, no mechanician, no student of human affairs; merely . . . cherished for her air of aloofness and that aura of mystery which surrounds her." About the only good thing Cole has to say about the creature is culled from the continental reporter Labouchere, who noted that cats became a gourmet item during the 1870 siege of Paris. Their flavor, he recorded, is "something between a rabbit and a squirrel...
...SAMA could buy scores of large American corporations and millions of acres of prime U.S. real estate. SAMA'S vast holdings of dollars, German marks and Japanese yen are a worrisome wild card in money markets from New York to Tokyo. Adding to SAMA'S menacing aura is its abiding secrecy. Western moneymen guard the identity of most Saudi investments lest they be blacklisted from SAMA's select roll of middlemen...