Word: breaks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Darling, she was consciously presented as amoral. In the new film, Miss Christie is highly moral, rejecting two suitors because she doesn't love them, foolishly rushing into marriage with the dashing Troy (Terence Stamp), yet apologizing for it a day later, realizing he's rotten but unable to break his hold...
Structurally, the play has problems. A year's break between acts one and two seems unconvincing, and the first scene of the second act is contentless. But the lines, and the characters who speak them, achieve credibility and real beauty at the same time. "Baby, if you had a dog, I'd love the dog," says Moe Axelrod, the family satisfied businessman with little concern for family or boarder, to Hennie, whom he loves. Uncle Morty, a self-heritage, describes his success by saying, "Every Jew and Wop in the shop eats my bread and behind my back says...
...meet of sacrifice for Harvard captain Jim Baker. Unchallenged in seven dual meets and the Greater Boston Championships, Baker went out at a killing clip over the first two miles to break up the Yale and Princeton blocks...
...blind wife (Audrey Hepburn) become the unwitting owners of a dangerous dope-filled doll. Three thugs hoax the husband out of town and then try to coax the heroine into giving up the toy. With mounting anxiety she keeps insisting that she has no idea where it is. To break down her story, the crooks concoct a series of elaborate disguises, posing as old men, young men, policemen and friends...
...Dylan's landscape, time exists only as "a foggy ruin." Natural clocks stop. "Darkness at the break of noon...the child's balloon eclipses both the sun and moon." Historical sequences disappear. Dylan discovers America, collides with a bowling ball and a girl from France, and, as he leaves, meets Columbus in search of land. Historical reference points dissolve in a montage. Einstein apeaprs disguised as Robin Hood, sniffing drainpipes and reciting the alphabet. "With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves/ let me forget about today until tomorrow...