Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sinatra has always been a cool cat in my opinion; now this cat has lost his cool forever, to my disillusioned mind...
...spite of these alarms and excursions, the leftists have continued to play it cool-so far with apparent success. The Communists-led by husky, strong-jawed Georges Marchais, 52, a former steelworker-have disavowed any revolutionary plans for France. Rather, they have promised to work for "social justice" entirely within the constitution and have made respectable, soothing noises about following democracy "to the end of the road...
...actors, who have all been excellent elsewhere, are at loose ends here. Jane Fonda's Iris is a warmed-over, heart-of-gold hooker; Sutherland's Jesse so unflappable and cool he suffers from frostbite. Peter Boyle's jolly schizophrenic has lots of identities to assume. Only one - a mock-up of Brando in The Wild Ones - seems to suit...
...Ophuls, as Griffith, appeals unerringly to our unspoken but only rarely articulated assumptions about ourselves. Christian de la Masiere is cool, calm, collected and seemingly able to put a distance between his reflective and active selves. No matter how much we may hate the words and ideas he expresses, we cannot help but admire and respect these qualities. Our emotional response to these qualities of character transcends our abhorrence of the man's actions...
...cool in the police car, and the cops, although jittery, relax when they see that their passenger is unarmed. They have their own stories to tell, of new ambush attacks, and of strong desires for shotguns to repel something they call the Black Liberation Army. But after they listen to their passenger's story, there is a quiet in the car, and there is no further attempt to educate the new Rip Van Winkle. There is no attempt to go to the station. Rip is, suddenly, a free man all over again, and stuttering, he tries to find praise...