Word: glimmer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. Alan Arkin's magnificent performance as the mute in this Hollywood adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel is the only real glimmer of poetry in an otherwise determinedly prosaic film...
...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. Alan Arkin's magnificent performance as the mute in this Hollywood adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel is the only real glimmer of poetry in an otherwise determinedly prosaic film...
Still, the film is not without its incisive moments. Sir John Gielgud as Raglan, puttering about in senescence, flashes a glimmer of the haughty ineptitude that substituted for authority in the Blimpish days of Empire. In one robust, hilarious scene, reminiscent of Richardson's Tom Jones, Cardigan (Trevor Howard) and his lady (Jill Bennett) rush to get undressed. She races ahead-then turns back to help him put of his girdle. And the charge itself is almost entirely successful. The rigid troops move forward like wind-up toy soldiers, under the hypnotic spell of unquestioned tradition. The firing begins...
Clear Statement. In the arduous efforts to end the war, that conversational cameo may not seem earthshaking. But amid the ritual of prepared exchanges, in a situation where the fund of optimism constantly verges on bankruptcy, Thuy's approach to Harriman offered the only glimmer of hope during last week's three-hour and 45-minute session. For by thus addressing his opposite number informally, Thuy may have been hinting that his delegation will soon be willing to talk directly to U.S. negotiators in an atmosphere undistorted by propaganda-as Harriman has been proposing all along-rather than...
Shock & Excitement. Sprinkled throughout the publications are first, tentative works that show a glimmer of the authors' future power. Double Dealer, published in the 1920s in New Orleans, contains the early poems, stories and criticism of William Faulkner. His gothic eloquence is much in evidence, as is a penchant for backward-running sentences that caught on with other young experimental writers as well. One of his characters, a priest, rhapsodizes...