Word: groping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...settings are truly lovely-symmetrical Palladian porticoes, marbled rooms with glowing frescoes and statuary, formal gardens opening on cypress-dotted vistas. Losey scatters the action of the opera over every photogenic square foot of them. Characters grope endlessly down pillared corridors, wander around outdoors and are unaccountably set afloat on gondolas. Consecutive scenes shift disconcertingly from nighttime to broad daylight and back again. Most of the music is lip-synched to a prerecorded track; inside or out, wind or rain, we hear the souped-up ambience of the recording studio. The result is that characters who ought to be interacting...
...cold was suppression of communism and the rigid posturing of the Church. Sometimes the newsreels do blend into the fiction easily--Maguire's steadfast moralism shows better against the undeniable portrait of the fifties on real film. Assigned to film a flood, Maguire and his young cameraman grope their way into the disaster area at night. A newsreel by the competition, Newsco, introduces us to the scene. In a fairly believable sequence, Maguire's assistant drowns. His death plays on the marquees to sell the newsreel...
Each day millions of Americans talk, scream, confront, jump, paint, dance, strip, tickle and grope their way toward emotional fulfillment. They are sampling one or more of the 200 or so therapies and countless pseudo therapies that are now being peddled in the U.S. as panaceas for unhappiness, anxiety or worse. At one end of this therapeutic spectrum are such exuberant exercises in self-help as biofeedback and Transcendental Meditation; at the other end, close-order drill for the psyche, like est. All but trampled by this stampede toward satisfaction lies the battered body of the medical specialty that once...
They arrive on campus nervous but excited. An upperclassman shows them to their dorms. Stumbling across the quad, maps under their noses, they grope their way to classrooms in modern buildings. They listen attentively as professors talk about opportunity. At night they gather in a big dining hall. A typical college orientation? Not quite. The participants are middle-aged?parents being prepped on what college holds for their children...
...Milne's classic, Piglet was left virtually speechless by his run-in with what he thought was the mysterious Heffalump. Now astronomers can share his bafflement as they grope for words to describe their own strange encounter. Off in the distant heavens, among a grouping of stars that the ancients called Cygnus (the Swan), they seem to have found a celestial version of a Heffalump. It is a cosmic beast of such enormous gravity that it appears to be tugging, stretching and, indeed, slowly gobbling up its giant companion, a massive star more than 20 times the size...