Word: grayish
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...picture is a savagely forged transmutation of folk legend into macabre personal obsession. The oddly grayish canvas depicts at least 44 fantastically garbed elves, sprites, gnomes, and pixies. Some are so tiny that they can hardly be distinguished beneath leaves or behind other fairies' shoulders. And most have peculiarly distorted heads, eyes, breasts or calves. All are watching the fairy feller, who is about to cleave a hazelnut in two with his mighty...
...Haals. In the language of the old screen comedians, his imitations produce the boffo--the laugh that kills. He usually delivers the lines sitting down, leaning forward over the table or desk. He moves the corner of his lip up toward his car, smooths the thinning, grayish hair from the high forehead and takes the student's part...
Technically, Living has all the earmarks of a student film. The camera sometimes wobbles, the lighting is often dubious, and the print grayish-grainy. But Waletzky avoids a fatal student mistake: overasserting himself to make up for lack of confidence...
This self-consciousness is usually of an assured quiet, sort. They define the Radcliffe years as an arrow pointing toward them, with everything else fading into a grayish blur. What do they like best here? The privacy, the independence, the challenge, or some particular experience of the past, they answer softly...
There one full martini glass stood off from the crowd. In the grayish liquid left undrunk, a green olive floated half-way up--there it was, not on the bottom where a rotting olive should have been, but floating an unsuspended half...