Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awkward nostalgia Limelight elicits stems partly from its semi-autobiographical stance. Chaplin plays Calvero, an old vaudeville comedian who drinks too much and can't find work. He rescues a suicidal young ballerina (Claire Bloom) and infuses her with his life energy and accumulated wisdom. She becomes a great star; she falls in love with him; he dies...
...press conference with her fiance Desi Arnaz Jr. following the award presentation, Minnelli advised women who aspire to Woman of the Year status not to think about themselves; see colors, have a good time and care because "that always makes what's inside bloom...
Frederic (Bernard Verley) lives the routinized life of a commuting Paris lawyer. On the verge of middle age, he has settled in the suburbs with beautiful wife Helene (Francoise Verley) and child, and she guards his middle class stability unquestioningly. Although his paunch is beginning to bloom and puffiness wells the contours of his face, he considers himself a paragon of maleness. He is a girlwatching connoisseur, and escapes the anxiety prone hours of late afternoon by shopping in the city, where he visually exercises his bored and spoiled sexual appetite...
...keep from including). Borrow a French dictionary (to translate Gardner's morsels of French). But press on at all costs to the end. The masterpiece to be found there is Clumly's final speech on law and order, which shapes and caps the book as Molly Bloom's soliloquy shapes and caps Ulysses. Somehow eluding all his own built-in progressive rhetoric - about the usefulness of supermarkets in India and the righteousness of justice - the police chief stumbles toward a single sentence, a perception of his lot in the world...
...existence of so many otherwise great men of music (Horowitz, Stokowski, to name but two) among the ranks of failed Mozarteans? David Oistrakh is emphatically not one of them. His playing (that curvaceous tone especially) has a touch of the romantic, but not enough to tarnish the piquant bloom of youth that imbues all these works. Mostly, Oistrakh's way is a perfect blend of ingenious inner detail and simple, uncomplicated exteriors. That applies also to his viola playing in the Sinfonia Concertante (Son Igor takes the violin solo) as well as to his conducting of the Berlin Philharmonic...