Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems about to have his gizzard sliced, the tone is one of marveling reminiscence, not fright. Albert's perceptions are never solidly those of a twelve-year-old apprentice delinquent; often they are those of a 45-year-old writer. "Whistling, he bounced into Benny's narrow store," Green writes. "It always reminded Albert of a ship. The floor sloped. Great sacks of dried rice, beans, meal, were the stores of a Joseph Conrad merchantman, not a local grocery." No twelve-year-old thinks that way, not even a clever one who reads Conrad...
...Harvard wrestling team pulled out a narrow 22-19 victory over M.I.T. last night, in a meet marked by agonizing injuries...
...post-World War II world is the great leap by U.S. corporations into overseas markets-whether by direct investment in plant and equipment or by acquisition of foreign companies. In making that leap, American companies have begun to reshape themselves into global organizations to which national boundaries-and such narrow definitions as domestic or foreign -mean little...
Writer-Director Brooks has followed Capote's story with remarkable fidelity. Hickock (Scott Wilson), an ex-con, allows his narrow, twisted mind to feed on rumors of a safe with $10,000 in the Clutter farmhouse. He persuades his parolee friend Smith to come along for the ride. But this is no ordinary caper, since both men teeter on the edge of madness. Hickock has strong but subliminal homosexual feelings, and likes to call his colleague "Honey." Perry, brutalized since childhood by his rodeo-riding father, is the victim of a motorcycle accident that left his dwarfed legs...
...Perry, Robert Blake has the narcissistic good looks Capote described, with "the dark moist eyes" and bril-liantined black hair; he even appears to have "the stunted legs that seemed grotesquely inadequate to the grownup bulk they supported." Scott Wilson, as Dick, has the "long-jawed and narrow face tilted, the left side rather lower than the right," and the "American-style, good-kid" manner that can bounce a check or a baseball with equal ease. It is their performances that lift the film from documentary competence to near brilliance. In the end, the actors have become the criminals, understandable...