Word: lamenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...period when people just went out and made pictures, before restrictions boosted costs and took all the fun out of everything. At least five interviews mention the ease with which insert close-ups and re-takes could be made by anyone--an assistant cameraman or even a star--and lament the red tape existing now which makes this informal kind of moviemaking legally and financially prohibitive...
This wholesale miscasting might have been redeemed in part if the songs and dances possessed ethnic veracity and virility. As it is, the bouzouki music sounds as if it was piped in by Muzak, and the lyrics are insipid. The characteristic tone of Levantine lament is scarcely heard, since music that weeps and words soaked in pain might dismay the theater-party ladies. The dances have the look of old folk dances-any old folk. Greek fire is missing. Zorba danced because words could not contain his vaulting spirit. Bernardi clodhops, while the supporting cast dances by a timetable...
...major objections to the merger, most notably that the. ICC had not fully considered the anti-competitive aspects of the consolidation. Last week's unanimous court decision rejected all those objections. In a somewhat lyrical burst of prose, Federal Appeals Judge Charles Fahy took the occasion to lament: "The romance of railroad building is all but lost in the welter of data before us. The merger will bring about changes in vast enterprises that took over from the pony express, the stagecoach and the covered wagon...
There is a constant concern for other poets. He writes of Frost, Jarrell, Williams, and dozens of others. The book is a catalogue of poets, alive and dead, forming the greatest lament since Dunbar...
...dark singer of the first scene), whose gutsy voice is essential to the show's feeling of life projected directly from the soul with no stops along the way. Often Prince uses her and her companions to move along the action, as when black-frocked women chanting a low lament about "the crow" before Hortense's death scene become ravaging parasites themselves at the scene's end, even before their victim finishes her last gasps. As if this weren't enough, Prince shows the women hideously climbing up the platform, evil beasts holding Hortense's gaily colored parasols against...