Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...not?as the run on shirts, socks and underwear, the appearance of thousands of haggard employees and the empty spaces at 30% of the desks and workbenches throughout the city amply proved. With few exceptions, New Yorkers the morning after could fully appreciate the sign that appeared in the window of a littered midtown Automat: PARDON OUR APPEARANCE...
Characters who later appear in La Strada or 8 1/2 can be found, if you care to look for them. For example, a flabby stripper in the revue later turns up as the famous Saraghina in 8 1/2. Haggard actors tramping along dusty country roads surely foreshadow La Strada. By contrast, the extended aerial shots of Rome lack only the helicopter and Christ of La Dolce Vita...
...which is, ironically, the key issue in the New York dispute. Kheel closeted himself with the negotiators, and the group stayed in session from 7 in the evening until 8 the next morning. Two hours later, they reconvened and kept at it until 1 the following morning, when a haggard, pallid Kheel announced: "With the benefit of sleep and reflection, we will be able to move forward." His optimism was well meant, but Kheel and company are concerned with an issue that promises no swift solution...
...children, television addicts, and those who relish cinema cliches. The large cliche collection here assembled includes the Reincarnated Hero, the Perilous Quest, the Lost City and the ravishingly beautiful woman who is really 2,000 years old. But She is no copycat; Britain's H. Rider Haggard wrote it in 1886,* 51 years before Ronald Colman ever heard of Shangri...
Born at the outbreak of World War I, Clark could pass for a somewhat haggard 35. A hand-on-hip, elbow-on-podium, lecturer, he speaks in a slightly lisped, pseudo-cynical side-of-the-mouth manner that a randomly selected sample of his female students agree is "cute." He smokes a pipe but looks far more natural with the Mariborough that is usually dangling from his lips. As a seminar leader, Clark is an instructive and incisive, interrupting a muddled speaker with an impatient "What is your point," or venturing a bemused "I feel terribly rejected" when someone ignores...