Word: blobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burgeoning Industrial Revolution, Turner eventually abandoned trite old themes to depict railway trains and steamships roiling, almost defiantly and often indistinctly, through mist and fog. When he titled a painting Sunrise with a Boat Between Headlands, the subject was neither topography nor the boat, which is a barely visible blob, but light refracted by mist...
Laurel and Hardy were virtually the only silent comedy stars to repeat their phenomenal success in talkies, probably because their miming spoke louder than words. Stan remained a model of amiable imbecility, impervious to thought. Ollie, a blob just a shade brighter, bumbled his way through every difficulty with ineffable grace, slowly building up vast reserves of despair, self-pity and frustration that only a long pained look into the camera could dispel...
...other serious disease, and there is one case that he has studied closely and anxiously for six years-that of his own 19-year-old son. With Dr. Walter R. Nickel he has been collecting specimens of knobby tissue for microscopic study by offering surfers $15 for a blob...
This doggedly purposeful drama qualifies handily as the grimmest movie of the year; yet the best of it burns into the mind. As the pawnbroker, Rod Steiger performs with tightly measured virtuosity. He is colorless, an inconspicuous blob hidden behind steel-rimmed glasses and a steel-wool mustache. To blot out a world full of past and present horrors, Sol listlessly endures an affair with his best friend's widow. He spurns the friendship of a sympathetic social worker (Geraldine Fitzgerald), slowly begins to soften toward his troubled young Puerto Rican assistant (Jaime Sanchez), then crushes...
...Talk About Women is a comedy about nine Italian men. All of them are played by Vittorio Gassman (The Easy Life), an actor of great charm and almost inexhaustible versatility, who seems determined to prove that the legendary Latin lover is really just a big blob of mozzarella. In his fall collection of heavy breathers, the evidence sure is persuasive...