Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doesn't smoke, but she will now and then take a little brandy and soda. With ice? Unthinkable. She would love to be able to play tennis, but she says she is too awkward: "If I throw a ball overhand," she says, "I without fail will be flat on my bottom." She confides that she would really "like to be a sexy bombshell. But I'm not and never will be. So what I'd like would be really wacky comedy. I'd love to throw custard tarts at people...
...help being moved by the great cultural issues peripheral to the picture." He carefully divides his time between reading and painting, produces barely ten canvases a year. In his earlier work the periphery threatened to take over completely, with minute, wordy inscriptions fussily paramount. Now he lets the paint, flat, matte and massy, do the job. His wife refused $7,500 for his Junta...
Their first two conversations are harrowing. Walled up in a white cell somewhere under Washington, President Fonda speaks steadily and carefully in a voice that is intense but curiously flat, as though every word were crushed by a burden of significance too great to bear. And as the voice drones on and on, pleading and reasoning and pleading, the figure of the actor slowly swells and charges with tension and importance, the presence of the man becomes the person of mankind and his voice the voice of the species pleading for its life. The whole of history seems consummated...
...These Women, for all its faults, may well stand as a milestone in the career of Sweden's Ingmar Bergman. It is his first film in color. It is lavish in decor. Though it fails miserably, it is the work of a man who falls flat on his face with impressive aplomb. Behind a transparent disguise as a knockabout farce, it is Bergman's personal indictment of his own critics and public...
...gold; Hobbs, a sly, tall-tale-telling frontiersman; Spie-buck, a 6-ft. 4-in. Shawnee guide; and shrewd, Lincolnesque Colonel Alex Doniphan. The bad guys are legion, ranging from scoundrelly Mexicans to brash American bullies who never learn -they always pick fights with Elaine and end up flat on their backs...