Word: deadheader
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...especially when they don't really know what's going on. But they're so unaware and insulated from the terrain upon which moral judgements are made that their crimes are uninteresting, and you never see the connection to 1950's America or whatever is supposed to justify their deadhead lost-child innocence-turned-guilt. Malick shows gory murders, then our sympathetic characters, and the inevitable tearing-apart this inflicts on the audience is supposed to pass for ambiguity and profanity. Well made by Malick, well acted, but all in all kinds boring and overrated, considering the fuss...
...have had a weakness for Peter O'Toole's blue eyes--the effect heightened by eyedrops--at that age), and a second look is disillusioning. The desert looks phony (even though shot on location), and in re-release the picture was cut mercilessly. Omar Sharif is probably the biggest deadhead in screen history, too. Made by David Lean over several years with a great deal of money, and brought out in 1962 when it won a host of Oscars...
...best jumping-off points from New York are Westchester County Airport, the Butler Aviation Terminal for private planes at La Guardia, and Teterboro, N.J., and I quickly learn that corporate jets are the most likely bets. They take the longest jumps and often "deadhead"-that is, fly empty to pick up passengers. Jeffre, a girl I meet, has been waiting six days so far for a hop to Europe. "I would never have believed I'd stay so long," she says, "but everyone here has been so nice." I'm luckier: on the fourth...