Word: lonelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does play the flute for Marcus one night. And Marcus, not totally bereft of talent, plays the piano to accompany her. They fall in love, of course, and it's a scene that is something to see. The passion of two middle-aged failures finally breaking through the lone-liness of their lives can be much more exciting than Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway playing an erotic game of chess...
...previous manned space flights. Not only will the spacecraft be as many as three days away from a safe landing (v. no more than three hours in earth-orbiting missions), but it will be entirely dependent on its own propulsion system to break out of lunar orbit. If that lone engine should falter, the astronauts would be stranded, circling the moon with absolutely no hope of rescue...
Harvard's lone score came on a high, looping kick by wing Ahmed Yehia late in the third period. Taking a pass from Jaime Vargas, Yehia arched a soft shot into the nets just beyond the Cadet goalie's reach...
This highly polished piece of cop art emphatically watches a lone lieutenant playing it straight in a crooked world. Frank Bullitt (Steve McQueen), of the San Francisco police force, is assigned to keep a state's witness alive and soon finds himself wallowing in other people's blood. A colleague is shotgunned down, a witness ice-picked, a blonde garroted. These are only his minor problems. A self-aggrandizing official (Robert Vaughn) wants Bullitt "castrated" because he fails to obey orders the way his cowardly superiors do. Bullitt's girl (Jacqueline Bisset) says that...
...works is The Red Lantern, which recounts the heroism of a family in the Communist underground during the war against Japan. Madame Mao has ordered drastic changes for the production. She has banished the traditional Chinese orchestra of wind and string instruments. The singers merely stand up before a lone grand piano and a percussion section and intone arias ("I Am Filled With Courage and Strength") while the action takes place offstage. The scene is bizarre because only two years ago the piano was condemned as an instrument for "bourgeois spiritual aristocrats." Now it is revered as a creation...