Word: greying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Maysles and his brother Albert, two young film-makers who had produced Gimme Shelter and Salesman. They went to East Hampton in the fall of 1973 and spent five weeks filming Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale, age 79, and her daughter Edie, 56, then edited the footage into Grey Gardens, a disturbing portrayal of their gothic relationship...
...linoleum had been left tatooed with brew-begrimed footprints, fliptops everywhere, and the remnants of cigarette butts. We were both still real stoned, and with lights suddenly on the mops in our hands, the white room seemed clinical, even institutional. So we swabbed it with mops and a great grey steel pail, periodically cleaning the mops under the shower, or shattering the besotted silence of the entry by opening the door and heaving great bags of the detritus out onto the slate. We were too exhausted to finish. Another roommate had stopped briefly to help, but he was too drunk...
...wide corridors of the Science Center heading toward the flourescent gleam of a small room in the distance. He enters the computer room, eyes the other students and drops into a seat in front of a large white terminal. He types his name and secret password, watches the grey screen come alive with responses, and settles down to work. "I don't usually come in here on Saturday night," he explains, nervous because of the interruption in his work. "But I'm taking a course where you have to know Fortran beforehand, and I'm trying desperately to learn...
...annual spring migration of HDA sweatshirt-clad athletes from the cozy confines of the IAB across the clear grey Charles begins tomorrow with the opening of the rugby season...
Occasionally someone will almost destroy his fragile credibility entirely by invoking well-known, and subtler, caricatures of the type he is supposed to represent. Hans, whom Eugene Buder plays with flaring nostrils and flirtatiously upturned eyes, is associated with Marlene Dietrich and Joel Grey, and although he holds his own well, they have held theirs better. Dimitri (Donald J. Campbell Jr.) resembles a wistful Zorba, but his blustery accent, unlike that of Nicholas (Gustavo B. Armagno) is not Greek and he wraps himself too earnestly in a philosophically tragical nature--especially for a Greek who yearns for a boat...