Word: forlornly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family. His daughter Mona loudly backed the fedayeen and badgered her father by letter to leave the government. When Daoud, aghast at the extent of the carnage in Jordan, finally did resign, the guerrillas announced that they would hold him, among others, responsible for the fighting. A bitter, forlorn figure, the general decided to go into exile in Libya...
KARL E. SMITH, 54, is a shy, forlorn man who is almost marooned in his solitude. To find him, a visitor heads north from Fresno, Calif., and up into the Sierras, following a single-lane trail that winds endlessly along 9,000-ft. precipices. Finally, the traveler arrives at Florence Lake, and there is Karl, smiling nervously, waiting in rumpled cowboy clothes, wearing a three-day beard and smelling of horses. He helps you into his aluminum outboard motorboat and you putter to the other end of the lake. There you mount a horse, and three hours later, after climbing...
...latest in a long, long line of Gallic gamines, Mile. Jobert is sometimes a bit too cool and saucy to convey the proper measure of terror, although she is just forlorn enough to be touching. In any event, Bronson more than compensates for her flaws in their sharp running dialogue. Bronson's U.S. films (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape) have apparently typecast him as just another ugly face. Here he shows himself as perhaps the most underrated actor this side of Rod Taylor. He is the consummate inquisitor, and even as he slowly falls in love with Mellie...
...fake suicide the day after a real abortion, Shirley ditches her husband on a sacred Saturday evening he had reserved for taking her out to dinner and spends the night at Renata's flat. Philippe, ever logical, goes home to mother and has a liver attack. Shirley, forlorn and illogical, goes to a restaurant and picks up another waif, a girl who has ordered a four-course meal for her cocker spaniel but has no money...
...Florida Everglades when he fell overboard and was pictured for posterity hauling himself out of the drink. Last week when Nixon clambered ashore at Key Biscayne from a boating trip, he sported a small bandage over his left eyebrow, having apparently banged his head when the boat pitched. The forlorn photographers were left to dream about yet another shot that they had missed...