Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extrasensory perception to divine the public mood, though Beatrice Schmidt, a parapsychologist in Greentree, Pa., predicts that Nixon may "stagger along for a year and then resign." Others give him less time. W. Harry Sayen, G.O.P. chairman in Mercer County, N.J., thinks that Nixon loyalists have tried to "hang on and hang on to his believability. But something snapped after the Cox debacle...
...Mean Streets a group of dull young men who live in New York City's Little Italy are anxious not to rile the Mafia if they cannot impress it. So they tiresomely hang around bars, pool halls and street corners, punching and grunting at one another until, as their mothers must have warned them, someone gets hurt...
...becomes simultaneously anxious and guilty, not only about this relationship but about life in general. He is anxious because he hopes to rise in the Mob and cannot afford to have a lot of blood spilled on his turf. He is guilty because he believes in Catholic hellfire. These hang-ups also cause him to behave abominably to his girl (Amy Robinson), who is smart and pretty but no hit with his uncle, the Godfather, because she is also an epileptic...
...Bangs lack. Paul Seltzer as the disbelieving doctor, Hope Brokman as a jilted secretary and Dorothy Meyer as a barroom pick-up all have flamboyantly intriguing people holding up their perfect faces. These personalities can support director Steven Glovsky's fetish for unneccessarily broad and stylized gestures, which hang ridiculously on most of the other characters...
...Mies' staff, who with the fervor of acolytes refused to "compromise" an inch on the maestro's plans. Hence the stiff lighting, the patchy services (such as an elevator too small for large-scale paintings) and, worst of all, the absence of any walls to hang pictures on. Three sides of the hall are glass; the fourth is an open internal balcony. Placing screen walls to carry paintings will be a headache for curators-especially since the Texas daylight, flooding through that glass acreage, creates pockets of glare and shadow...