Word: lacedly
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...singled out for us by the director as well; whenever he comes on screen thereafter, there's an initial shock of recognition and an initial laughter. But we remeet him as he talks to a different sergeant, one who is kind, and placating who is, in fact, helping Hickman lace his boots. Hickman has let Basic, his awkward training errors, and the razzing of his bunkmates get to him. He has tried to commit suicide...
...superb work on both films) and haunted by time. "The past is a foreign country," says the narrator, over a shot of an English manor house. "They do things differently there." Immediately the film plunges into a splendid reconstruction of the Edwardian era, all etiquette and innuendo, cascading lace and carriages, mirrors and staircases (the last two, familiar obsessions from other Losey films). Leo Colston (Dominic Guard) is a twelve-year-old schoolboy come to pass a luxurious summer holiday with a wealthy classmate. Leo is more than a little out of place. He swelters in his woolen Norfolk jacket...
...back alley just outside the fairgrounds; the black handle of a shiv could be seen bristling from the pocket of one 13-year-old. Passing rusting barrels and abandoned refrigerators, the kids picked up beer cans and trash, identified wildflowers common to abandoned lots: Queen Anne's lace, daisies, dandelions. Another group hiked down a little-used railroad spur, starting rock collections with fool's gold and coal. Many brought the younger brothers and sisters for whom they must baby-sit while their parents work. As they told friends about the camp, enrollment swelled by another 100 kids...
...Plague of Moths Despite July's heat and humidity, large areas from Maine to New Jersey look as if spring were just beginning. Big shade trees that should be fully verdant wear a thin green lace of tiny leaflets. It is, in fact, a second summer growth of foliage. The trees had earlier been stripped of all their leaves in one of the worst attacks by voracious pests ever recorded in the U.S. Northeast. If the attacks continue for another year or two, many trees will lose their strength to blossom again and will...
...neglected in this heavily predictable tale. Then there is that literary creation Author Abe himself, a mensh who makes Hemingway seem as mousy as Mann. Writing is heavy going for Abe. He throws himself into each book with such desperate energy that he is often "unable to lace his shoes" at the end of a day's work...