Word: lamped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sweet Smell of Success' destroyed us all," said Mackendrick, who would never again direct a major Hollywood film. But that's press-agent reverse-spin. In the projector lamp of history, no one cares whether the film's makers had a good time or whether the film was a commercial and critical flop. (TIME did put it on its 1957 Ten Best list.) What matters is the creepy, elevated pleasure it gives today. The movie proves how savory and nourishing a cookie full of arsenic...
...sits on his haunches and stares blankly across the street, and Levitt compels us to imagine the appearance of the unseen woman—or man—whose snow cone-holding hand is all that appears. The print depicts foreground and background people half obscured by a lamp post and a telephone booth, and so, as we wonder, we also revel in the ingenious spontaneity of seemingly unconscious compositions...
...second period, Harvard’s advantage was even more pronounced. The Crimson doubled Dartmouth’s shot total 14-7, but still only the Big Green lit the lamp as junior Megan Walton scored on a breakaway...
...rifles and pistols hung on the wall and the coat rack holding the Captain’s tunic. With time and the Captain’s growing madness, the order within the set begins to slacken. By the end of the second act, when the Captain throws a desk lamp at Laura in rage, the room has begun to slip into disarray...
Henkel lit the lamp again on a wrister at 8:54 of the final stanza, which made it a 4-0 game and prompted Mazzoleni to make a change in net, substituting Grumet-Morris for sophomore Will Crothers...