Word: hooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...island (producer, director and author) has made a film that sparkles with an understated, bitter native irony. For example, after waiting hours for the monopolist who controls the island's record business to emerge from the gates of his mansion, a group of six bedraggled hopefuls gathers around the hood of his gleaming white Mercedes and performs a carefully orchestrated song. The boss leans back for a moment, his sunglasses sharp stars in the sun, and suddenly interrupts them. "Too slow. I can't use it." The audience laughs at the irony of the fact that the boss so misjudges...
...this point that the movie begins to weaken. As Ivan rises to brief status as renegade folk-hero, the film loses its credibility. Ivan is more a rip off artist than a Robin Hood, an improbable hero...
...Orthopedist Mario Tourinho in Rio de Janeiro eight months ago. Drawing as many as 15,000 fans to their twice-monthly games, the teams square off with up to five drivers on a side (the number varies depending on the size of the field). Once the ball, a hood-high wad of hard rubber and canvas stuffed into a buffalo-hide covering, is put into play, virtually anything goes-up to and including head-on collisions. One of the few prohibitions is cutting directly in front of another driver while he is rolling the ball. That violation results...
...grown more acute with the passage of years; the face is puffy and well-worn; even the complexion looks gray, with just a hint of green around the gills. But there is more than mere looks to Robert Mitchum's performance as Eddie Coyle, the aging, small-time hood with a big-time survival problem. The weariness, the hooded cynicism, the underlying toughness that seems to consist more of an ability to survive beatings rather than administer them-all have always been there, unspoken factors in a career that has consisted largely of trying to transcend roles that...
...Good morning teacher," a boy said from the corner. He looked like a greaser, like a hood. His dark hair was slicked back and he was wearing Italian pointed shoes and a purple translucent shirt. Kathryn beamed...