Word: broodingness
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DIED. Yul Brynner, 65, exotic, prepotent actor whose near total identification with the role of the dictatorial but endearing King of Siam, whom he portrayed in 4,625 performances of The King and I over 34 years as well as in the 1956 film, and for which he won a...
Not that peril was what one really felt last Monday night. No matter how often the hate words spilled, no matter how loud the approval, a sense of reality prevailed: this is an unimpressive man with a relatively small knot of believers. If it is true that from time to...
WE SAW STORMS OVER the brown hills in the distance nearly every day, but it never rained over the harbor. The ground was dry and dusty, but the air was always humid, hot, and oppressive. It was almost too easy to draw a metaphorical relation between the politics of the...
It took a few episodes for Miami Vice to hit its stride. The earliest segments were sprinkled with predictable character exposition and comic relief. Crockett, for instance, was an ex-college football star with a wife suing him for divorce and a "funny" pet alligator named Elvis. Two mid- season...
Her new effort features a more pedestrian detective along with her stock characters, a deadly earnest tone and a climactic burst of violence befitting its story of long-calculated revenge. Although the setting remains British, Help the Poor Struggler is rather an American novel, with brooding and cynical overtones of...