Word: languor
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After the American and European television crews leave, life at Camp Cuba-Nicaragua returns to its normal desolation and languor. The 68-acre site, a leased former sunflower farm, resembles a vacated M*A*S*H stage set or a jerry-built guerrilla dude ranch. Gonzalez says his intention is both to train Latin American counterrevolutionaries for six weeks, at a cost of $600 to $700 each, and to rekindle the belligerent anti-Castro spirit of Florida's Cuban community. By Gonzalez's own admission, that second goal has been something of a dud, since would-be Cuban...
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...
Nonetheless, the simple genius of Brel's music carries the show. With deftness and economy this balladeer of the down-and-out mixed the tender and the funereal into a weltschmertz as heady as any German musician has ever brewed. These are songs that use familiar sounds--the sagging languor of a torch-song, the steady intensity of an army march--to put the listener off-guard and then knock him flat with cynical or black-humorous lyrics. "Marathon" goes on a careless, accelerating dance through the 20th century, nostalgically stopping at favorite decades, until the abrupt, eschatological ending puts...
...world inhabited by Philip Marlowe. Perhaps Altman's most effective, moving use of color to establish mood is in Thieves Like Us (1974), a beautiful, elegiac story of innocent young love in the Depression-era South. He saturates his images with green and yellow tones, simultaneously evoking both the languor of rural life and the lushness of the surrounding countryside...
When Dr. Astrov speaks of the ravaged soil of Russia, he means his ravaged soul as well, but Bedford delivers the lines like an ad campaigner against environmental pollution. Henry's Elena is a femme fatale of provocative dimensions, but she moves with a languor that confuses sensuality with sedation. If purity of spirit can burn away the dross of circumstance, then Maraden's Sonya is a quenchless flame, albeit a small...