Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Long rifle" bullets are the most lethal of three types commonly used in .22-caliber weapons. "Shorts" are tiny, "longs" the intermediate size. Hollow-nosed bullets are particularly vicious because they spread on impact, enlarging the area of damage...
...vast screens now lit dimly by the beam of a projector hundreds of yards away. Here play the films which last only seven days, the product that changes each Wednesday, supplied by a distribute who senses vaguely that the theatrical release of Robert Wagner films is a hollow formality prior to a greater pay-off of television sale and a nationwide screening on Saturday Night at the Movies. And when we sit in the half-light of these theatres, distracted by candy-laden children in action in too many aisles, wondering what evil lurks in the hearts...
...shortest hair of all, became the subject of nary a wry comment. Perceptive listeners also noted that she sang bass during the harmony while the males took over the higher octaves in falsetto. Rhythm guitar was played by a giant of a man with an Apostle's beard, hollow eyes, and a swollen voice. His guitar, slung low and hanging horizontal at fly level gave soul to his songs...
...York via communications satellite at a cost of $122.50 per minute. Switch channels. Fuzzy picture of Walter Cronkite, also in Paris, also costing $122.50 per minute. Neither had anything of substance to report about the Viet Nam peace talks that had brought them to Paris. Television never looks so hollow as when it focuses on an event that takes place behind closed doors or in men's minds. But there they were, along with more than 1,300 accredited newsmen from 39 countries. And there they had to be; the world has waited and hoped so long...
...effect. The small troubles that pervade the film become more tragic in retrospect: Madigan's domestic squabbles are at first banal, finally significant because Madigan dies before they can be resolved in such manner as usually satisfies audiences; his wife's final lament for her dead husband rings hollow because we have only seen her nagging him and his death locks her in the role forever in our minds. Siegel refuses to resolve the personal problems set-up during the film, and although we hope for positive change, we are often left with ambiguity or permanent limbo (Russell's relationship...