Word: forlorned
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...SHELTERING SKY. Bernardo Bertolucci has made a swank, sexy, bleak and very beautiful film from Paul Bowles' novel of a married couple on an existential quest for romantic catastrophe in North Africa. Debra Winger and John Malkovich powerfully portray the forlorn souls who languish under the desert's pitiless grandeur...
...plagiarize? Out of some clammy hope for fame, for a grade, for a forlorn fix of approbation. Out of dread of a deadline, or out of sheer neurotic compulsion. Plagiarism is a specialized mystery. Or the mystery may be writing itself. Many people cannot manage it. They borrow. Or they call up a term- paper service...
Some viewers, who believe movies should be easy and edifying, will say of Kit and Port: Such small people. But nearly all of Bertolucci's films, from Before the Revolution to The Conformist, from 1900 to The Last Emperor, are big canvases holding tiny, forlorn souls. Because of the performers' power, the Moresbys come alive onscreen as they never quite did in the book. Bertolucci looks at Malkovich, the lizardly eminence of Dangerous Liaisons, and thinks of Brando: "They are two monoliths, unchanging, absolutely still -- and, from the first moment, condemned." Winger, for too many years the great unused actress...
...idle. In the diplomatic residences of the fashionable Al- Mansur neighborhood, ambassadors and attaches debate the options for Saddam and the U.S.: almost all are bad, and most end in grief or horror. Among Westerners, there is some gallows humor. Among ordinary Iraqis, it seems, there is acceptance, chagrin, forlorn hope or simple noncomprehension...
...automobile pervades the area. When I think of the small towns in the valley, the first image that comes to mind is a man, or perhaps two or three, huddled over an engine, pointing to the hoses and speaking in muted voices about the carburetor. Driving on the most forlorn and deserted road, interrupted only once every few minutes by a farmhouse or cow grazing, I pass a sign proclaiming, "Dave's Auto Welding shop." Dave, like his neighbors, has worked on cars all his life...