Word: greying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gonna Cody-fy the world!," Joel Grey promises in Buffalo Bill and the Indians, Robert Altman's parable for the Old West that tells us how a handful of big-mouth lily-livers made up their own myths as they went along. Grey, the weazy sycophant behind Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, certainly found his modern counter-parts in the New York film critics crowd, a bunch that seems to want to "Altmanify" the world, and did their damndest to verbally contort this pleasant but rambling work into a masterpiece...
Chipmunks graze in roadside thickets; grey playful squirrels forage for nuts--the staff of life during the winter. Denuded of their pristine leaves, the poplars and maples stand in silent testimonial to Life, and the termination and renewal thereof...
...next year," the fan said. "OK, have a good winter," the vendor called back, smiling from beneath his grey stubble. Behind them, Fenway Park loomed majestically, smiling quietly from beneath the late afternoon shadows...
...concedes that they might have a hard time convincing anyone that their world-view is particularly rosy work, Grey Gardens, a portrait of Edie and Edith Beale (Jackie Kennedy Onassis's aunt and cousin), who live in senile isolation in a rundown mansion on Long Island. That film aroused sharp criticism; some felt that the movie was an outrageous invasion of privacy, while others questioned its veracity. Was it possible, they wondered, that Edie Beale acted as strangely as she did because of the camera's presence...
...mayor Al (22 years, as long as this reporter has been alive). I'd love to know if Al uses the same tactics to get through the working day at his regular job as a tax assessor for the Commonwealth. It must be a "colorful" variation on an otherwise grey occupation...