Word: glaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...India," commented one observer. "Her response to problems is essentially emotional, and that, unfortunately, is not what India needs now." Adds another: "She is caught between the realities of today and her hostility toward the former colonial powers." Foreign diplomats in New Delhi who have withered under her cold glare describe Indira as arrogant and frosty...
Eroica, made in 1957 by Polish Director Andrzej Munk, who died in a 1961 auto crash, reaches the U.S. with a reputation as a classic. But Munk's film stands up less well than Ozu's under the glare of posthumous appraisal. It looks like a roughing out of the masterwork that it was meant to be-one angry young Pole's bitter, blackly comic jeer at wartime myths of courage and honor...
Mute Fruit. Classical Guitarist Andres Segovia recently stopped a performance in Chicago, whipped out an enormous handkerchief, and honked and wheezed along with the audience. Jascha Heifetz prefers the withering glare or, if things get too bad, departure. The late Sir Thomas Beecham was even less subtle, once whirled on the podium and roared: "Shut up, you fools...
...from the Yalu River, Johnson ordered his men to pile up stacks of hay in the fields before their line of fire. When bugle-blowing North Koreans swept down in a night attack, Johnson's machine-gunners set fire to the haystacks with tracer bullets. In the heat, glare and confusion, the attackers were wiped...
...Inca, immutable, glorious, incandescent. In another scene, bitter light stipples the Spanish soldiers' helmets and swords as they pantomime their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes, and the men seem wearily stitched into their grey-hued armor as if they had enlisted for eternity. Spookily, stylized Peruvian masks glare, peer and revolve in ritual chorus like puzzled primordial birds. Royal Hunt dazzles the eye as a spectacle...