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...shooting Lolita there in 1961. He found it "helpful not to be constantly exposed to the fear and anxiety that prevail in the film world." He lives and does all pre-and post-production work in a rambling manor house defended by two wooden walls and furnished in early nondescript. He rarely ventures forth even to London, less than an hour away. He prefers that the world-in controllable quantities-be brought to him via telex, telephone, television. All the books and movies this omnivorous reader-viewer requires are delivered to the retreat he shares with his third wife Christiane...
Hackman is perfect at presenting the peripheral man, an identityless form floating around on the edge of things, affecting nothing. His character is nondescript enough to make way for tragedy--elements more powerful than himself can take over without a fight because he's doomed from the start. In Coppola's The Conversation. Hackman is totally subservient to the technology of his work: the bugging devices he plays with as vicarious life turn on him. They erase his sense of self so much that he begins to convince himself that he's being bugged. Finally, he doesn't have enough...
...need children feel guilty about putting their parents in some of the smaller, less shiny but equally good homes round the country. Associated with the Christian Missionary Alliance, the Alliance Residence in Minneapolis is a nondescript three-story building minus any lush lobby or manicured grounds. But what it lacks in gilding, it more than makes up for in concern for its patients. Alliance's 100 occupants are in the care of seven nurses and 25 nurse's aides, who work hi three shifts so that the home will be staffed round the clock. Most of Alliance...
Culture Shock. Miami's Cuban community took in four families-31 refugees-who were housed in a nondescript motel in the city's Little Havana section. "It's only natural," says Sylvia Goudie, who fled Cuba in 1960. "If we, the Cubans, don't help them, who is going to do it?" In Loma Linda, Calif., the Seventh-day Adventist community sponsored en masse the 388 doctors, nurses and medical technicians from Saigon's Adventist Hospital...
BUILDINGS AND HOUSES tend to range low and sparse in Kansas. In town the architecture is nondescript, and the landscape seems pretty stark. But looking up is soothing; the sky looms vast and watery, flowing into the distant horizon on all sides...