Word: canings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face is gaunt--ravaged but handsome, like a weathered statue--and the skull is nearly visible through the skin. The body is hunched; it needs a cane for support. Getting a first glimpse of Marcello Mastroianni here, the viewer is not surprised that this was the last film he completed before his death in late 1996. Was he only 72? He looks a decade older, frailer. A closeup could be like an autopsy, were it not for the actor's perennial ease and grace before the camera...
...adopted home with ease. Perennially clad in oxford shirts and khakis, he manages to simultaneously exude American preppiness and interpret his current home at a polite distance. Meanwhile, his Currier House single is full of Islamic and Sudanese artifacts from home and family. He pauses briefly to point at cane with an emblem of an eagle, the Sudanese national symbol...
...even hate Lou, whose presence is central to the book even though he abandoned Billie. He had been aware of what would eventually happen to Billie at the time of their marriage, but then, "when she was still on the cane, she had a face like the dimensions of a crystal, all chiseled with wisdom, smarts, heartache, all beautiful like a flock of birds scared up off the cove, all beautiful like the sound of cellos..." he had thought himself equal to the task of caring for her as she deteriorated. After he forfeits his well-loved...
...afternoon sun begins to sink slowly intothe western sky, Charles A. Watson yells out, "Areyou looking for something?" The man outside theCambridge Street Laundromat, located at 315Cambridge St., sits with cane in hand andTam-O-Shanter on his head. From a distance healmost resembles an Irish leprechaun...
...this produced some memorable players. Look around. There's Lenin arriving at the Finland Station and Gandhi marching to the sea to make salt. Winston Churchill with his cigar, Louis Armstrong with his horn, Charlie Chaplin with his cane. Rosa Parks staying seated on her bus and a kid standing in front of a tank near Tiananmen Square. Einstein is in his study, and the Beatles are on The Ed Sullivan Show...