Word: gloomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outwardly, at least, there was no gloom in the White House during Gerald Ford's final days there. The shock of his election loss was over, and Ford left with the sense that the American people appreciated what he had achieved during his 2½ years in the presidency. TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angela was present during those last days and filed this report...
...private sales, a deal of barter." Clem no longer leaves their apartment on the top floor of a crumbling London house; he drinks and stares at the reproach of blank canvas. Lena goes shopping once a week, toys dispiritedly with the notion of leaving Clem and the airless gloom that enshrouds him. Clem reads her thoughts and reminds her: "If you left me, I'd fall down. But so would you" Hanley lightens this bleak, static scene only once-with a long flashback to World War II and the London blitz, when Clem, Lena and the other tenants trooped...
...Gloom and Doom...
...multitude of others who have in varying degrees tied a part of their lives to the fortunes of their men will be experiencing the thoughts and emotions of the candidates, but their reactions will be of a distilled variety. Many of the losers will walk about in gloom for a time, but the future is sure to bring other men and women in need of a helping hand and a few extra votes. And after all, much of the indescribable attractiveness of giving for a cause is in the giving itself. For those whose livelihoods are built around candidates...
Along with this already daunting prospect, Watkins wants the audience to share Munch's own furious insights and tilted perceptions. So the movie becomes as gloom-ridden, as frightened and obsessive as the youthful artist himself. Watkins fragments the film, fords the stream of consciousness, forsaking the obvious for the magnification of a detail. The narration (read on the sound track by the director himself) informs us that Munch eventually developed agoraphobia. In a more conventional film, we would have been treated to scenes of the artist reeling down streets, cowering in his room. Not here. Once stated...