Word: leaden
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With The Dark Day, winter breaks up. Cold rain pelts the earth awake. A savage squall attacks the dike. The ships at their moorings, and also the ships that try to run for open sea, are wrecked. A seagull tosses on black-tipped wings against the leaden...
William Hanley's screenplay is full of ominous undertones and pauses that are often more leaden than loaded. Although Frankenheimer's direction is always precise and often-as in the skydiving sequences-masterly, much of the dialogue lacks the painful intensity that was obviously intended. The interrelationships of the characters make sense but have little emotional resonance, a handicap that only Gene Hackman manages to surmount. His brassy characterization of a free-living sky diver adds a poignant dimension of reality to a film that, like sky diving itself, is an exciting but slightly dubious exercise...
...chill, leaden afternoon nine years ago, Ted Williams came to bat for the last time in the final Boston Red Sox home game. As he had done so often in 19 storied seasons, Williams stroked a towering home run. Preferring to leave baseball as he had played it-with unsurpassed style-he retired on the spot...
...here, I'm bored. . . We've felt so much, tried so hard in so many ways to bring some real humanity into the academy, and we've failed." Ten days ago Joel Kramer described the "incompleteness" he felt as he prepared to graduate. "Will I ever stop feeling so leaden-lazy; will I ever find something I want to do? . . . Harvard pulls hard at both ends, and you are left hurting in the middle." The unhappiness is there. Look around. You don't have to look very...
...college. Do I fight for my country? Do I work for it? Do I ignore it? Do I try to change it? Do I work against it? Do I proceed alone, or share with others, and how many others? Will ever stop feeling so leaden-lazy; will ever find something I want...