Word: blanch
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...baroquely stylized work of Fassbinder and Herzog. Four of the five new German films in the U.S. are rooted in headline reality. Christiane F. is based on interviews with a 15-year-old Berlin prostitute and heroin addict that appeared in the newsmagazine Stern. It is a tale to blanch the parental conscience, for here are children barely in their teens who whore, steal, shoot up and, too often, drop dead. Chic-pretty, lipsticked and long-haired, dressed in Annie Hall punk, negotiating puberty on stork legs, Christiane (Natja Brunkhorst) is a caricature of cover-girl womanhood. She comes home...
...damage-control squad will doubtless be joined by groups with well-honed sexual biases to apply to the problem. Some image-conscious gays may blanch at the sight of Older Woman Donnelly making a pass at a minor, which is what Hemingway is at the beginning of their four-year affair, and they are not going to care for Writer-Director Towne's deromanticized view of the romance either. Neither are determined heterosexuals, who like to turn situations like this into tragedy-everyone tortured by irresistible forces, guilts and a society that misunderstands and condemns. Towne seems to shrug...
Dealing with new playwrights is in any case, a messy, time-consuming, demoralizing business. Ninety per cent of them have no reason for writing a play beyond being stage-struck; and most manuscripts are either plodding, sentimental TV problem plays, or blank-verse behemoths that would make Milton blanch. The latter are occasionally built on legitimate dramatic impulses, but the authors have no theatre sense, no conception of how to hold the stage, and they smother their ideas with embarrassing language and elephantine pretensions. Many of these playwrights have nobly sacrificed law school, television or movies for Art: they trumpet...
...federal district and appellate court judges and Supreme Court Justices, President Reagan beamed with pride. Looking intently at O'Connor, the President affirmed that the nation demands of judges "a wisdom that knows no time, has no prejudice and wants no other reward." O'Connor did not blanch or blush...
...General Foods and Bendix, to fund research. If the research develops into fruitful ventures, profits will come under the jurisdiction of a separate company called Engenics. Since the center owns 30% equity in Engenics, those profits will enable the center to aid university research, no strings attached. Says Harvey Blanch, U.C. professor of chemical engineering and a founder of Engenics: "I think this type of arrangement is a first." With Government grants decreasing and inflation pressing, it is not likely to be a last...