Word: limpidness
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Unfortunately, before the prospector relates his own near-farcical version of what happened, The Outrage has already set the audience snickering. Even Howe's limpid, meticulous photography cannot redeem the dialogue, which the actors often appear to be addressing to Destiny 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...
...wintry mornings, when the sun burns off the pearl and filthy mist, Fuji still soars beyond the freeway. And every week a dozen tank cars rumble through the pine grove of the Imperial Palace, hosing dust and soot from the drooping needles. The harbor itself, and the once limpid Sumida River where warrior-poets repaired, are now thick with wastes-both human and industrial. Yet there is scarcely a resident of Tokyo who could not compose a stately, sympathetic waka in the shade of his humble eaves...
JOHNSON'S WAX. In the copper-colored bowl suspended over a limpid pool, 500 people at a clip see the 17½-min. movie, To Be Alive! Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid traversed three continents to produce it, and the triple-screen montage is fast, fresh...
...when he mounts the platform or pulpit, the actual words seem unimportant. And King, by some quality of that limpid voice or by some secret of cadence, exercises control as can few others over his audiences, black or white. He has proved this ability on countless occasions, ranging from the Negroes' huge summer March on Washington to a little meeting one recent Friday night in Gadsden, Ala. There, the exchange went like this...
...boldness of Capralos' bronzes conveys his belief that man has the stuff of gods in him. Asked if that was his message to the world, he replied, "To hell with messages. I simply defy death and love life." Then he gestured to the limpid day outside, and asked his questioner to join him for a swim...