Word: complexion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special edition of the CRIMSON which carried the story of that 1924 tribute to Eliot had a large reproduction of a full-face portrait of the former President on the cover. Looking at the picture closely, it gives no clue that Eliot did not have an immaculate complexion. I have heard that he looked men straight in the eye, but did not like to be photographed...
...really determine whether Love Story has saturated the lovestory market. If not, Abelard & Heloise may glow at the box office despite its sallow dramatic complexion. "Inspired" by Helen Waddell's novel Peter Abelard, and the love letters of Heloise and Abelard, the play actually belongs in the company of operettas, historical romances and three-handkerchief movies. Critical duty virtually stops there; the people who like this sort of thing do so invariably, and the people...
...flimsy excuse. The research time and money represented by EVR would have equally sufficed to develop and perfect a tape system subsuming EVR's picture resolution and information access while also having a record mode compatible with most TV cameras. Excepting time-choice, EVR does not alter the general complexion of television viewing....EVR is an extension of the CBS network, a tautological tool-not a tool for creating a new variety of network. It fails to put the 'consumer' in direct contact with the processes directing the in-formation he receives-his information continues to be directed exclusively...
...clarity of the social conflict makes all the little details spring alive. The stylized stark setting puts the barnyard in front of the house, puts the in-laws and the aristocratic lover into a flat beige and gold of costume, complexion, hair-proud wigs. Against them all, Dandin's shaggy authenticity strikes out like a bear baited by spaniels. When at last Dandin finds the house empty at night and locks out his wife, the creaking stock situation leaps up with delight while Dandin exults...
Despite the traditional Republicans complexion of these states and their votes for President Nixon in 1968, the Nixon-Agnew journeys into the West failed to sway the electorate who saw them as outsiders trying to influence local politics...