Word: languor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nicholson has developed to the point where his mere tears can rouse the same sentiments as his death; yet precisely such a passionate death snapped critics out of their languor toward the previously obscure, drugged-out actor, in 1969's Easy Rider. Hopper and Fonda had written it as a two-wheeled vehicle for themselves, but it was Nicholson who carried the confused, drugged saga out of the multitude of road pictures, playing the only non-hippie, non-redneck in the film, the young smalltown lawyer George Hansen. Hansen leaves home to ride cross-country with these two bikers, donning...