Word: frigidities
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...Dunaway, hired before Bonnie and Clyde was released, is used solely as a clotheshorse out for a long gambol. Giving his film a "now" look and his characters an ironic, detached air, Director Jewison obviously hoped to play his movie cool. But there are several degrees between cool and frigid: a degree of wit, a degree of plot and a degree of that old unbuyable, style. Their absence stops the movie cold...
...girl, Doris Mae Winter, is a social dropout too ("her formal education had come to an end when she slugged a history teacher for giving her a failing mark") and is frigid to boot. Romance, naturally, blossoms. She becomes Leonard's partner in a Bonnie sexual union-successful for him, enjoyable for her-before he comes to his Clyde...
...beginning of the term which is quickly dissipated in the present system than at any other time. Reading period now, coming at the end of an exhausting year, is a source of pure agony. The climate too must be taken into account: spring and early summer in frigid New England is not the time for concentrated reading, February certainly...
Serendipity struck a group of Ohio State University geologists last December as they picked away at the stratified sediment in an ancient stream bed high in the frigid Transantarctic Mountains. Investigating rock strata to learn more about the Antarctic ice sheet, they uncovered a small fossilized bone fragment with continent-sized implications...
Unexpected verged on inexplicable as hot teams suddenly turned frigid, or sure losers suddenly won. How to explain, for example, the Canadiens' 21 games with only one loss-followed by three losses and a tie? Who could have predicted that the Bruins would win six out of seven with All-Star Defenseman Bobby Orr sidelined? And how about the Rangers, those longtime patsies? Last week they had a Stanley Cup play-off berth all sewed up, and were within striking distance of winning the N.H.L. championship-for the first time in 26 years...