Word: dreading
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...Atlanta last week dread turned to relief for a change when two young black boys, each missing for about 24 hours, were found unharmed. Termal Heard, 14, was located at a friend's house, where he had spent the night without telling his mother. Dempster Williams, 10, was discovered at a gym on the city's southwest side after running away from home. The boy told the police his mother had beaten him with an extension cord for breaking a lamp...
...afford one lady," said her father, who had to struggle to keep her there. Working in school plays gave her a taste of drama. During a trip to a real backstage-to visit Rosalind Russell in Wonderful Town-she became infected with an incurable disease: the dread Broadway fever. Says she: "I was hooked...
...always at night, and the camera prowls suspiciously to discordant music The set for the play-within-the-film has no sense of depth: the scenes pass, stilted and flat. Something is happening outside all of this, and yet it is never explicitly shown. One only senses a dread, one smells horror like one can smell open water in complete darkness...
Throughout the film, there is a deliberate refusal to judge any of the characters in political terms. Truffaut is perhaps only interested in showing the real lives which existed in spite of the occupation. But this distant stance, this refusal to do more than hint at the dread, eventually condemns the film to the realm of the superficial. It is the equivalent of a period piece, a nice love story in an interesting time, and one leaves the film with nothing more than the memory of some beautiful visual scenes--something which seems superficial in the face of the subject...
...college that I noticed any change in the situation at all. He wore an Afro and she wore an Afro, and some times the only way you could tell them apart was when his Afro was taller than hers. Black had become beautiful. It was then that the dread I felt at dealing with the college-educated black male began to ease. Even now, though, when I have occasion to engage in any transaction with a college-educated black man, I gauge his age. If I guess he was born after 1945, 1 feel confident that the transaction will turn...