Word: drowned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YEARNINGS expressed in the film-both in its original and cut versions-are romantic, and constitute today's collective, updated white man's burden, which is probably why the film is presented as a flashback told by nobody in particular. The film supports Lawrence, and does not drown his military or political achievements for the sake of bombast. But there is still a credibility gap-without cutting a broader swath of history and defining its themes more clearly in that context, we cannot accept them. Lean's claim that he only worked to advance the story rather than concentrate...
Rain falling to drown...
...players. Where there are beautiful women, men can always be found. Far more threatening to the reviving industry is a misreading of the entrails, a miscalculation of public opinion. To return to the stereotypical Joan Crawford flick ("Let me alone, Paul, I'm a lost crusade") would be to drown in a sea of sorghum, to turn off the young, the middle-aged and the old. To generations brought up on television, every plot is known; to a sexually liberated society, every shock has been felt or consciously bypassed...
Ellis' reply: "If the man jumps into the water, give the Russian ship the first opportunity to pick him up. Don't let him drown. Go get him if they are not going to retrieve...
...something of a latter-day Richard Burton-the explorer, that is. She has been trapped in a coup d'état in the remote kingdom of Bhutan. She has delivered a Masai baby in Kenya. In Bangkok she saw Buddhist parents "with static expressions watch their baby drown...