Word: glacial
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...represent in effect the two political alternatives between which the country had to choose. This notion remains unwieldy as a device and unresolved as an idea. Resnais does not fracture his time structure nearly so much as in Last Year at Marienbad or Muriel. Stavisky achieves a kind of glacial elegance. If it is not among the director's very best, it is at least a welcome return to form...
...also hit the big time when some nude photographs of her husband raised hell in Seattle in 1915. Or in 1926, when Edward Weston wrote to her about her print "Glacial Lily:" "This is fine! It is the best thing in the show, Imogen, and if you keep up to that standard, you will be one of a handful of important photographers in America--or anywhere." Her reaction to his praise is typical for her: "Of course, I had been photographing for twenty-five years." In 1931, Martha Graham called Imogen "the only photographer before whom I can create...
...Glacial Age. De Lumley, a Marseille University professor, who with his archaeologist wife Marie-Antoinette has been excavating the grotto for a dozen years, bases his estimate on paleomagnetic dating of the clay in which traces of ancient man were found. During a period of warmer temperatures some 1½ million years ago, De Lumley believes, the waters of the Mediterranean rose and waves battered the hillside, enlarging the limestone grotto, and leaving the various fossilized fish, mollusks and tiny marine organisms that have been found in the cave. About 1 million years ago, the sea retreated...
Huntley's rather glacial TV presence was a mark of his professionalism, not his personality. A large, genial man, he possessed an openness that seemed out of place in Manhattan's canyons. His second wife Tipton, a former TV weathercaster, shared his love of travel and the unspoiled wilderness. He had two daughters by his first marriage, which ended in divorce...
With a plot devoid of suspense, an air of regality is of the essence. Eileen Herlie strives for imperiousness and achieves glacial suburban pomposity. George Grizzard suggests a jaunty detached habit of command, but any show of passion is dissipated in petulance. All in all, one has the unsettling impression that a pickup cast of stewards and maids from the crew of the Queen Elizabeth II could have mimicked royalty more convincingly...