Word: chillness
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...every scene a clock seems to be ticking) is classically Chekhovian. The actors-Alexei Batalov and lya Savvina-are at once wholly natural and wholly professional, and Director Josef Heifitz' black-and-white camera work, while academic, manages magically to evoke the torpid heat of Yalta, the snowy chill of Moscow. And nowhere in the film is there a foot of propaganda-either for home consumption or for foreign eyes...
...yard line seats, about halfway up the stands. Within seconds a moist chill had permeated my bottom. Dammit, I had forgotten to bring something to sit on. Susan was singing the Latin words to "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard." She really was gung-ho. Or maybe she dated someone in the hand...
...stood up for the kickoff. When we sat down the seats were wet again. The chill spread a bit farther. In front of us two guys were huddled together with Gordon Linen towels over their heads. They each took a swig from a bottle of rum. Dammit, I had forgotten the thermos of hot coffee...
...edge. But as the group neared the canal, one youth became so frightened that he slipped away and ran home. The rest waited until they were sure the coast was clear, then dashed for the canal bank, where the only remaining obstacle to freedom was the water's chill...
...world with an affectionate eye: a stark interior he would somehow make snug; a winter street would lose its chill; and in his scores of landscapes-from his native Wisconsin to Giverny in France to Maine and Vermont-he never showed a storm or the sun as anything but gentle. Robinson may have been a minor figure, but his talent was genuine and warm. It was-as so many of his friends said about his laugh-infectious...