Word: crookedness
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And, at that instant, Gance cuts to an overhead shot. A country road divides the hillside from the fields. From atop the hill, the camera spies the tiny figure of a man weaving across the screen. The road is crooked, his purpose, straight. Behind him ride the troops, their motion...
ALAND OF SHIFTLESS hobos, of freight train yards and greasy roadside lunch counters; a land of desperate losers, crooked insurance salesmen and small-time racketeers, of empty pockets and broken spirits. That was James M. Cain's America. If for Thomas Wolfe or Jack Kerouac The Road led to freedom...
Duvall faces a tougher time with his role, largely because of an incompletely drawn character, and consequently he cannot evoke him as clearly. The origin of Tom's passion--which is directed mostly at nailing Des's crooked benefactor--seems obscure, especially compared to Des's obvious motivation. Sibling rivalry...
Otherwise all is indirection-the professor who refers to his "learned colleague" (meaning "fool") or the Congressman who defers to "the distinguished gentleman from New Jersey" (meaning "crooked fool"). There simply are no great insults any more; what was an art has become a shambles.
TO LOOK AT HIM, you would never suspect what he has gone through. Few visible scars betray his ordeal. His socks and shoes conceal the most obvious reminders--an extensive collection of burns on his legs and feet, which were slit open and then cauterized with smoldering cigarettes. Of course...