Word: lid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Michel de Ghelderode was a child, his mother told him of a little girl who died and was about to be buried. just as the lid lowered over the girl's coffin, she opened her eyes. She had been in a trance. By awaking in time, she saved herself for another death...
...rather than to one another, perhaps out of kindness. Actress Bloom intones: "He couldn't touch all we've been to each other." Newman's bandit is a growling comic-strip Mexican who leers: "You cooked dee pot of tamales, I juz' took off dee lid." And in the film's bumbling climax, ironic tragedy turns to fatuity when Harvey belly-whoppers into a clump of sage, staggers to his feet, notes a bejeweled dagger protruding bloodlessly from his chest and announces coyly: "Ah tripped...
Toplcapi. Closing time. The gates swing to, the guards take a cigarette break. In the gilded halls of Istanbul's Topkapi Palace Museum no sound is heard. But in the flowery promenade-no doubt about it, the metal lid on that mulch pit moved...
Steam-Kettle Hamlet. Feelings build up pressure inside him gradually until he blows his lid and there is a hot outburst. Then the process starts over again. In the over-all view of the role, this cycle emerges with too much regularity. After a while the graph of Sawyer's performance becomes too predictable. His farewell, however, is anything but predictable. He is the only Hamlet I have ever seen who, though stabbed and poisoned, remained standing on both legs right up to the very moment of death. I find that an admirable idea. One who recently contemplated suicide...
...Clive Donner (The Guest, Genevieve) maneuvers between black comedy and melodrama with absorbing skill. Maintaining a light, steady touch on the story line, he deploys his camera for a series of witty asides, mocking views of upper-crust life as it is temptingly reproduced in the advertising on the lid of a cookie tin. And one ripe interlude at a hunt ball finds all the horsiest young socialites in full...