Word: brooding
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...imagination. But discretion can take A Chorus Line only so far. Onstage the characters were small, vulnerable creatures on a big, bare stage; onscreen they must trumpet XXXXX aborted in midflight to concentrate on all the suffering wimpery of the plot. Zach (Michael Douglas), the genius director, must brood in heroic silhouette. Cassie (Alyson Reed), Zach's former love, must mope and cower before getting to sing a strong What I Did for Love. Pretty soon this film has all the zing of The Iceman Cometh as performed by the Fame gang. Once upon a time--for one day only...
...opponent today will come close. But she needs another 10 ft. in the javelin to beat Jane Frederick's American heptathlon record of 6,803 points. She hoists her last throw too high. It noses up, catches air and falls short. There is no time to brood; she has an 800-meter run to get through. Less than an hour later, tiring, she squeezes out a win in this last competition--a gaudy seven victories out of seven events. And though her point total of 6,718 leaves her 85 short of Frederick's mark, the victory can be read...
...How’d you do?” Joe would ask Tom, the fifth of a nine-child brood. Joe was, of course, looking for goals and assists. “But he really couldn’t remember,” Joe says...
...Brood, connive, conspire...
...Harvest, James Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, and John Gregory Dunne’s True Confessions. On the whole, though, “I don’t read much,” he admitted. “I like to brood, I like to think...