Word: gaunt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rider, Five Easy Pieces and their sundry imitators, the American highway as a metaphor has become a pretty well-traveled route. But Two-Lane Blacktop is full of its own surprises. Rock Stars James Taylor and Dennis Wilson are fine as the Driver and the Mechanic: Taylor's gaunt face and haunted eyes and Wilson's strong, oblique presence suit Hellman's purposes perfectly...
WHEN Soviet troops swept into Berlin in 1945, they battered down the doors of the Brandenburg Prison. Among the prisoners freed was Erich Honecker, a tall, gaunt Communist who had spent most of the past ten years in solitary confinement. Upon his release, Honecker lost no time in joining the Ulbricht Group, a band of Moscow-trained Communists who had been flown to Germany by the Russians to organize a government...
...waged as proof of its own possibility." Sloan's war-a small war, as a colonel laments to him, but the only war we have-is a brutally mechanistic game which feeds upon its own data and upon the bodies of the data-collectors. Within the game's gaunt stupidity individuals play only peripheral roles, stepping quietly here and there so as not to disturb the data. Sloan the amoralist believes himself only "an actor whose inhumanities are necessary to the plot. Whose victims are straw people. The point of a drama is not its carnage but how the hero...
...play as a medieval tapestry. All of his groupings for the various scenes have a kind of heraldic harmony. He has taught his actors to speak with clarity and to be still when they should be still. Thus, when the focus is on Richard, or on John of Gaunt, or on Bolingbroke, the concentration is total, with no dissipation of intensity through random movement...
...would anybody besides Richard Daley want to run for mayor of Chicago? "Because I care about this city," says Richard Friedman, 41, a gaunt and forceful lawyer who climbs mountains from the Andes to the Hindu Kush, treks through South American jungles and African deserts, flies gliders and balloons, works out with his judo class twice a week, and likes to squire Second City beauties around in his Porsche...