Word: knotted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world ugliness. The barren stretches of sand and scrub, the grey hulls of freighters and barges in the tiny harbor, the naked steel testing towers, the exposed beams of half-completed buildings, all took on a weird beauty. It was already a humid 76°. An 8-knot breeze rippled the coconut fronds. In a small operations building, about 15 technicians sat amid the coffee-cup litter of a sleepless night...
Last Year at Marienbad. A Gordian knot of cinema tied by two ingenious Frenchmen, Scenarist Alain Robbe-Grillet and Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour), which seems to make the pint-pot intellectuals feel like Alexanders...
Last Year at Marienbad. A Gordian knot of cinema tied by two ingenious Frenchmen, Scenarist Alain Robbe-Grillet and Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Man Amour), which seems to make every pint-pot intellectual feel like an Alexander...
...next morning, in a 16-knot breeze, he stood bareheaded and coatless on the foredeck of Northampton and watched 48 ships pass in review. A 21-gun salute pounded out as the nine-mile double line of ships, led by the mighty nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise and the smaller Forrestal, churned through the frothy waters of the Gulf Stream off North Carolina's Outer Banks...
...four took positions next to the doomed man-two on each side-and yanked the rope hard in opposite directions. The rope snapped, and Resnick fell backward to the ground. "Let me show you how to do it," he muttered. He tied the rope together in a neat knot, doubled it, and handed it to one of the young men. "Do a good job." he said, dropping to his knees. "Don't let me suffer...