Word: descriptional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turn a camera or raise a curtain on him and the reticent, barely descript DeNiro undergoes a metamorphosis. In Bang the Drum Slowly, he remade himself into a slovenly, Southern-bumpkin, baseball player; in Mean Streets, into a jittery, petty street hoodlum. Now, with his portrayal of the young Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II, DeNiro, 31, has come fully and formidably into his own as a character actor of range and depth...
...most of the talking; he is an organizer of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America, a New York-based clerical workers' union with which Schroder is affiliated. Van Delft is an extraordinary-looking man, especially when he is sitting down. Although he is short, wears non-descript clothes--corduroy trousers, a shirt open at the neck--and is getting paunchy, he is impressive from the neck up. He has a huge, craggy head and a bushy brown beard that blends into his bushy brown swept-back hair. His eyes are deepset, big and bulging. He has a cigarette...
...Adam's attraction just begins with its Himalayan similarities. Ask any climber who knows the range well and chances are he'll describe Adams as a mountain which hikers worship: Washington is too commercial and can be reached too easily, Clay and the lesser known peaks are too non-descript. Madison and Monroe have large Appalachain Mountain Club Huts on their sides, and Jefferson is too much like the Alps. But Adams is different...