Word: laine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aftermath of the vote was reassuringly normal. Young blacks snake-danced happily in Newark's streets, where, in the 1967 riots, young blacks had lain dead. Inside, a mostly black, mostly middle-class crowd partied for hours. His celebrators stopped cheering long enough for Gibson to tell them that, as he had said throughout his campaign, he would now turn to reconciliation and the desperately needed improvement of Newark's municipal services. "When Robert Treat founded the city of Newark over 300 years ago," Gibson said, "I am sure he never and you never realized that some...
...crumbling surfaces of medieval figures, many without heads or hands, emanate a sense of the centuries they have endured. Revolutionaries knocked them from cathedral walls: some have lain buried: wind has eaten away at others; now the exhaust from tourist buses threatens them with ruin. In their present state, where moments of perfect carving flow between interruptions of broken stone, these pieces symbolize our fragmentary knowledge of art of the Middle Ages...
...story fit for the second Elizabeth, though it has perhaps one minor fault: the first two hours. In adapting Maxwell Anderson's pretentious free-verse play, the film makers have resurrected cliches that have lain dormant for decades. There are "get-out-of-my-sight" scenes that have not been witnessed since Bette Davis hung up her spites. There are pseudo profundities that recall the worst of The Lion in Winter: "I am the King of England; when I pray, God answers." Even the costumes are exaggerated. Lest the audience miss the villainous character of Cardinal Wolsey (Anthony Quayle...