Word: gauntness
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...deals with a familiar theme: man obsessed to the point of fanaticism. The scene is the dirt-road South outside the progressive and prosperous mainstream of U.S. life. In a modern U.S. city, there is no place outside of the psychiatric ward for the hero of Wise Blood, a gaunt drifter who blinds himself the better to see God and extinguish the devil...
...true actor should be, he is an interpretive artist, not a personality merchant." For a major star, he is unique in lacking idiosyncrasies, ranging without trick or mannerism or telltale signature from classical heroes to contemporary antiheroes. A gaunt six-footer, he looks like a fine-grained, graceful Abe Lincoln. His expression glows with open intelligence, wit, humanity. From two foxholes lurk eyes that can flick a sense of danger to the farthest balcony. A critic wrote that he has the face of a fallen angel...
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...gaunt face with silver, brutus-cut hair at once impressed the gathering of some 150 persons with the solemnity and weight of the occasion...
Message of Urgency. The very sight of Safer, gaunt and haggard, out there in the midst of battle, brought the war to the screen with undeniable immediacy. It testified...