Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flyby of Venus and Mercury, will transmit a TV picture of Kohoutek. Pioneer 8, another satellite already in orbit around the sun, should be in position in early January to transmit radio signals through the comet's tail, thus providing clues to its makeup. Even the space agency's large Goldstone antenna in California's Mojave Desert will be mobilized-to bounce radar signals off the comet's nucleus...
...these opportunities come to bad ends because Christian's outrage keeps breaking through his overcourteous exterior. He tells off brand-new widows who complain about their dead husbands' makeup. He is too quick with his fists, which are surprisingly effective. Yet Donleavy's New Yorkers are thorough professionals, blunt and disturbingly honest about their own illusions. Unfortunately, Donleavy is rather slippery about his own illusions. The city, he seems to be saying (especially when he pumps his prose full of Celtic twilight), is no place for a wandering Christian...
...playboy film producer, a self-made man up from Jewish-immigrant slums, who takes a snippet of pubic hair from every woman he seduces. Gwinnett is a withdrawn, thirtyish academic, a descendant of Button Gwinnett, the first signer of the Constitution, who has a whiff of necrophilia in his makeup. Both are drawn to Pamela partly because of her infamous liaison (in Books Do Furnish a Room) with the late writer X. (for nothing, not for Xavier) Trapnel, the possible source of a film for Glober, a biography for Gwinnett...
...stunt man (Dani). Also present are the director's dedicated, sensible assistant (Nathalie Baye), who muses: "I would give up a guy for a film-but I would never give up a film for a guy"; a zany special effects man (Bernard Menez); a forever wide-eyed makeup girl (Nike Arrighi); an anxious producer (Jean Champion); and a production manager (Gaston Joly) with a suspicious wife (Zénaide Rossi). Under normal circumstances, such a group could be counted on to cordially despise one another. But on location they create the kind of exuberant turmoil from which movies-just...
...with an unadorned, realistic style of opera that celebrates the struggles of workers, peasants and soldiers against landlords and imperialists. Gone forever, or so it seemed, were the highly stylized music dramas about kings and concubines, scholars and lute-playing ladies. Gone, too, were the elaborate costumes and makeup and delicate performances in which characterizations were conveyed through a series of ritualistic actions and formal gestures...