Word: gauntness
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From a side street into the marketplace walks Kurt Waldheim, 67, the tall, gaunt former United Nations Secretary-General, now in the last stages of his quest for Austria's presidency. For his fellow citizens, he has inadvertently become a symbol of the wartime generation that was caught up in Nazi Germany's military machine. The storm over his war record is proving as painful a reminder for most Austrians today as the sight of rubble once was on the country's streets...
Erica's version of events is supported by the John children. Says Timothy, 27: "Mother is working hard to hold the family together and do what is best." Harry's children attending the trial are cool toward their father, a tall, gaunt figure wearing cropped hair and a baggy gray suit. Last week he tried to call over his daughter Paula, 25. "Why now," she audibly asked, with hardly a glance at her father, "with all the reporters here?" At another moment Erica murmured aloud, "Poor Harry doesn't know what's going on." Harry, in an interview, recalled...
Magnificently captured by Shakespearian actor John Wood, most familiar to recent movie-going audiences as the elusive Dr. Stephen Falken in War Games, Northumberland is every inch the cold-hearted villain, complete with gaunt complexion, beady eyes and extended five o'clock shadow. The first of the principal actors to appear on-screen, we see him directly after the camera shows the ax being lowered over the head of King Edward's former favorite, the Duke of Somerset. After hearing of Somerset's death, Northumberland nestles back into his chair and with an admirable coolness, casually inquires...
...surreal moment when the hostage takers became the magistrate and the jury." That seemed to be precisely what the leader of the criminal gang, Defendant Georges + Courtois, 38, had in mind when he demanded that television cameras be brought into the courtroom. "You have been judging me," the gaunt Courtois said with icy calm. "Now it is our turn to judge you." Waving a pistol and smoking a cigar, he launched into a lengthy harangue, warning that the "slightest attempt" by police to intervene would mean bloodshed. His words were quickly broadcast to spellbound TV viewers all over France...
Gutwiilig does an equally impressive job as the wizened and dying John of Gaunt. He realistically portrays Richard's sagacious uncle whose raspy, yet piercing voice haunts Richard throughout the play. Gutwillig also plays the Abbot of Westminster and has a brief appearance as the Gardener. This latter role proves his flexibility as an actor since he successfully and humorously fulfills the part of a gossipy old man, as opposed to the serious and frustrated John of Gaunt...