Word: descending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insufficient dimension, from above, the narrow hand would stretch in a plane beyond the limits of either eye, and from the blue would emerge the invisible colors changing so patiently that one could as well walk from sun to shadow in the same ignorance of perfect vision to descend, however, from wings to the land beyond the blue plain begin, continuing to the great mountains in measureless distance, great dunes of sand, they are vulnerable, massive changing with the clouds, their gravity, constant in change, they are not gold, nor golden color borne of texture below the surface, the refraction...
...with pink cherry and magnolia blossoms, and deluged with tourists. One morning nearly 10,000 visitors queued up to tour the White House. Along the black iron White House fence 37 women, mainly suburban housewives, chained themselves in protest against the Viet Nam War. Peace marchers are about to descend on Washington en masse (see following story), but the city seems unperturbed. On the Capitol lawn, a group of Democratic presidential hopefuls, including Senators Birch Bayh of Indiana. Henry Jackson of Washington, and Harold Hughes of Iowa, startled passers-by as they sat down to dessert al fresco. The herring...
...Pants. The replica of a Follies show highlights the evening. The re-creation is titled Loveland, and there is a shivery moment as the tall, lovely girls descend the traditional staircase. Beauty dapples the stage like a cascade of roses. Each of the four principals does a song or dance number denoting his or her folly: Buddy's is self-hatred; Sally's, being in love with love; Phyllis', a blurred identity; Ben's, self-proving quests, no satisfying goals...
Forman's subject for his first American film is, promisingly enough, the flight of adolescents, who each summer descend on Greenwich Village to get away from their parents and out on their own. The film opens with a massive audition for potential folk singers, then switches to the resolutely suburban home of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Tyne (Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin), who come to the tardy realization that their daughter has skipped. Tyne and his best friend (Tony Harvey) set out to track her down. They stumble into a local bar, get loaded and reel home, where they...
...they are conveyed in formal compositions that amount to decorations, not disasters. Plague-ridden corpses are artistically strewn on smooth fields; soldiers flash evil grins in cartoon style-one even ecstatically licks the blood off his knife. Clavell has doubtless been studying Pieter Bruegel the Elder: as the soldiers descend into the only unspoiled valley in Europe, the peasants disport themselves with picturesque energy. But always there is the obtrusive sense of the camera, always the feeling that every improvisatory step has been choreographed to death...