Word: curiously
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bombay, some time in the 1920s. Military band music. Massed cavalry. Mobs of the curious, somehow menacing in their vastness. The Viceroy and his lady are returning from England to India. As they pass through a great ceremonial arch, it fills the screen, dwarfing them and casting them, as symbols of an empire's transitory pomp, into the subcontinent's tuneless perspective...
...third of Scott's mild and curious heroines, a sort of professional consoler to be found at the bedsides of the series' variously suffering characters, Geraldine James is unremittingly sensible. So too is Charles Dance as Guy Perron, the thoughtful, soft-spoken officer with whom she feels rapport. But the most dominant of all the performances is that of Pigott-Smith as Merrick. Holding together the entire series with the black magic of a self-made lago, he is a picture of twisted pride and prejudice, his face permanently pinched, his upper lip invariably quivering toward a sneer...
That surreal image, which might have come from a Magritte painting, was how a young Turkish sponge diver from a small Mediterranean village described some curious objects he had spotted lying near a sunken shipwreck. When George Bass, a nautical archaeologist who had been rummaging around the floors of the Mediterranean coast for 25 years, heard that description in the summer of 1982, he thought-he hoped-that he might be on to something...
Crimson: Lawyers are demanding to go farther and farther into the actual process of gathering news and I was curious whether you thought that that was another aspect to this libel business that could potentially damage newspapers...
Joined in a conspiracy of defiance, the curious opening night crowd enjoyed the pleasant sensation, so rare in our permissive age, of eating forbidden fruit. As the curtain rose for A.R.T.'s production of Endgame, a roar of applause--a symbolic note thumbed at Beckett's demands--greeted the unconventional...