Word: descending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...door, get no response, that she would knock on the door of the apartment below and that the tenant below would come to her aid. What Sylvia did not count on was that the neighbor's bedroom was directly below her kitchen and that the fumes would descend into his apartment and knock...
Every summer, much to the Vatican's distress, the package tours that descend on St. Peter's Basilica seem to be more scantily packaged than ever. For years, grim-faced men were posted at the doors to tell the women and girls who arrived in minis or skimpy dresses that they were "indecently dressed."* After the poor fellows absorbed innumerable punches from outraged husbands and fathers, however, the Vatican was ready to try something new-particularly with hot pants and the no-bra look in vogue...
Fake Dialogue. Until now the film has been a vigorous and accomplished adventure. But during the journey, allegorical trappings descend like a shroud, suffocating much of the movie's energy and momentum. Uraz and the servant meet an outcast woman named Zereh (Leigh Taylor-Young), who promptly turns the men against each other. She even tries to get the servant to murder Uraz so that they may steal his fine white horse. Delirious with pain from his broken leg, Uraz is beleaguered by the elements, his traveling companions, and his own sense of shame. He retaliates by tempting Zereh...
...institutional reform and delivery of services. Richardson has traveled fairly widely among his constituents-visiting poor Chicanos in San Antonio and coal miners in West Virginia, for example. His speeches are known for a certain meticulous dullness, but as he told the black Capitol Press Club recently, "as you descend in eloquence, you get closer to the money." One of his predecessors in the toughest Cabinet job, John Gardner, believes that "if he gets any kind of breaks, he'll be one of the best of HEW secretaries. You don't need a Lone Ranger. You need...
...audience and cast to have fun. Such an approach to theatre is by its very nature limited. Senelick and his cast are intensely aware of these limits, and for the most part stay within them. The production only falters when it attempts to ascend to purposeless artiness or descend into calculated spontaneity...