Word: gnome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film, TV and other ways of mass-circulating the visual icon he is not -- for commemorating the dead, illustrating religious myth or dogma and expressing social ideals. The aim and meaning of the work were rarely in doubt. With statues, good or bad, from garden gnome to Marcus Aurelius, you knew where you were...
...from America for the winter by renting a villa in Nice. It turned out to be a dank monster, out of town but nowhere near the sea, with camphorated neighbors. The view consisted of a rectangular, tiled pool hedged with silvery artemisia bushes; at one end stood a garden-gnome lump of a reproduction putto, coyly peeing into the water. Beyond that, some straggly shrubs, a screen of cypresses and a few glimpses of the house next door, as ugly as hers-and, most of the time, rain. So much for Dick and Nicole Diver's paradise...
...legitimate, pedagogical reasons, so there's always been apprehension about me, long before my work on TV." And he adds with a smile. "But I think I'm lightening up. Anyone who sees me in class knows I'm schizoid. Beneath the surface there's a sort of gnome--someone fairly human...
...character who adds a distinctly Germanic touch to the story is the engineer Johann, whose red-rimmed eyes, hollow-cheeked beared and skewed teeth suggest a gnome straight out of Grimm's ghastly tales. Nicknamed "The Phantom," he crouches like a magicker among his intricate pumping machinery and shivers with foreboding before each explosion of an underwater bomb. But he is not the only hint of a tradition of fantasy. At one point we awake with the correspondent not knowing whether the terrifying crises of the past hours were real or only a dream. We share an unsettling feeling about...
Rowlands' young costar, John Adames, was all of seven when Gloria was filmed. But even now he possesses the dark good looks of a gnome gigolo. His mannerisms seem as if the director might have bought them at a movie-memorabilia shop: gestures from Cagney, a voice as wispy as Peter Lorre's, sardonic smiles from the early John Cassavetes. But they are perfectly suitable to the slapdash style and gravelly tone of a film that uses Method acting to conceal, and then reveal, the workings of a soft old Hollywood heart...