Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is work that not many stars other than Eastwood and Reynolds are currently doing. Wayne, Stewart and Fonda, last survivors of the generation of giants, have become old men despite our most imaginative efforts not to acknowledge that dismaying fact. Brando broods and thickens in the middle on his...
Businessmen in the area had mixed feelings about the proposed complex. Shirley Orkin, manager of the Jewel Box, hoped the new stores would bring new business to the area but added, "If it resembles a mall too much it will disrupt the character of Harvard Square."
That despairing theme recurs in That Time and Footfalls, but the effect is more numbing than chilling. That Time presents only the face of a sleeping man (Donald Davis) and his disembodied voice, coming from three different places as he dreams about the past. In Foot falls, a woman (Suzanne...
Charles Spencer Chaplin had risen from the darkest of London slums. His father was an alcoholic; his mother sewed blouses for 1½ pence each. Charlie's great character was a memory of that Dickensian experience, a waif in the tradition of Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. Comedy derives...
Actually, Guinness almost turned the picture down when he saw a science-fiction label on it. He read the first few pages, however, and found himself still turning, a sure sign of a good script. Guinness usually takes more complex roles, like the traitorous diplomat he is playing in Alan...