Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that Eastern would be any bed of roses when we bought it three years ago," said a haggard-looking Frank Lorenzo. "But I never believed that we would be here today." Thus, six days into a bitter walkout by some 9,000 mechanics, baggage handlers and other members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Eastern last week became the largest airline in history to go bust. And even as Lorenzo vowed to bring Eastern out of bankruptcy stronger than ever, he conceded that it might be impossible to avoid selling off more of Eastern's already...
Woods looks haggard, almost bored in this film; the intensity that he radiated in Salvador and Best Seller is missing here. Downey looks particularly puerile playing against the veteran Woods. Okumoto puts in a fine performance as Kim, but the best performance in the film is by Kurtwood Smith, who plays a toned-down version of his Clarence Botticker character (Robocop) in the role of District Attorney Robert Reynard...
OCCUPYING the screen for nearly every moment of Big Time is Tom Waits' face: contorted by emotion and music, smeared with a cheesy huckster grin or haggard with the effort of lonely dreaming...
...that's not for Travis. He speaks with reverence of the greats -- Patsy Cline and Hank Williams, Merle Haggard and George Jones, Lefty Frizzell and Jim Reeves -- but he has to be pressed to single out a contemporary. Even then, the answer doesn't come easily, and those he mentions -- like George Strait and Reba McEntire -- are straight, no-chaser country types. Growing up in Marshville, N.C. (pop. 2,011, right on the South Carolina border below Charlotte), Travis, with five brothers and sisters, got an earful of teen tunes, from Kiss to Clapton...
...brought out a biography of the diva Maria Callas, heavily borrowed from several earlier works, including Callas by John Ardoin and Gerald Fitzgerald. It was a best seller. Now it is the turn of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), the quintessential modern artist. Picasso is on the front cover, looking haggard. On the back is Huffington, looking glamorous. Her fixed smile displays a row of pearly teeth: no stains or chips. Which is remarkable, given that they have bitten off so much more than they can chew...