Word: gaunt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...communist poet in political exile on an Italian isle, introduces the postman (Troisi) to the verbal rapture of metaphors; aids him in winning over the sultry, feral Beatrice (Maria Grazia Cucinotta); then abandons Mario to return home. But the film's true poetry is in Troisi's face--gaunt and ethereal, like that of a Jesus in a Neapolitan pageant. The audience needs no subtitles to read the feelings in this man's brave, troubled heart...
...named "Bendix" digs up World War II battlefields so that he can commune with the skeletons of fallen German soldiers. Clerks and metal workers by day turn into street brawlers and arsonists at night. For nonviolent recreation some play a kind of anti-Semitic Can You Top This: a gaunt Nazi nostalgist goes by the nickname "Auschwitz"; a rich Austrian patron of the movement paints a Star of David inside his toilet bowl; a distributor of Holocaust-denial material jocularly offers his customers a computer game called Concentration Camp Manager...
...pale and gaunt Mickey Mantle made his first public appearance today since a liver transplant a month ago, with this warning for kids: "You talk about a role model, this is a role model: Don't be like me." The Yankee great, whose 40 years of hard drinking helped destroy his health, has dropped 40 pounds, and has a 60 percent chance of living five more years. "God gave me the ability to play baseball and I wasted it," he said. "I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to make up. I want to start giving...
...years since Soviet soldiers entered the gate marked ARBEIT MACHT FREI and found some 7,000 starving, sick, pitiful survivors of Auschwitz. Young and gaunt then, aging and gray now, some of them returned last week to remember and to grieve. They walked, once again, down the street of death from the rail spur to the ramps where they saw the last of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters. They shuddered before the gas chambers, peered into the wooden barracks, stood in silence amid the ruins of crematoria dynamited by the Nazis in a failed attempt to hide the evidence...
Using the aliases `Grimjack' and `John Gaunt,' LaMacchia organized the flow of software in and out of the system and warned its many anonymous users not to reveal the site's location on the Internet...