Word: paling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...human drama which is at the center. Director John Huston creates a marvelously realistic atmosphere. His Mexican lore is superb, every minor detail of dress and speech and technique rings true without the costumed grandiosity that Hollywood usually purveys as local color. He does not give us pale demigods or villains with waxed black mustaches; the three men he presents us with are for the most part fully believable in a believable if distant situation. One of the three, tough guy Bogart, illustrates the motif of the film, that "gold can destroy men's souls," his degeneration coming almost...
Daddy, why is Mommy so pale...
...came back." Reason was the academy's unwritten law prohibiting any work that might cause offense or annoyance to the viewer's religious or moral scruples. The academy's particular concern was that Queen Mary, peering at The Sphinx strait-lacedly, might deem it beyond the pale of propriety, though, says Sir Gerald, "For the life of me, I couldn't see anything about it to shock anybody...
...making most present runways too short for safety, and the hot breath of jet-engine exhausts will melt many runway and taxi-strip surfaces. Moreover, since six jetliners arriving close together will disembark as many passengers as an ocean liner, the passenger, baggage and ticketing jams of today will pale beside tomorrow...
...Such paladins of power and profit as Physicist John Gait, Steelmaker Hank Rearden, Billionaire Francisco d'Anconia all have noble, proudly lifted heads, clear blue (or green) eyes, frank, open expressions. Such blackguards as traitorous Businessman Orren Boyle, Bureaucrat Cuffy Meigs, Parasite Philip Rearden have eyes that are "pale and veiled" or "small black slits" or "blurred brown"; they can never meet anyone's gaze; they have hangdog expressions and poor postures. In fact, the struggle is so unequal that it is a wonder it takes the capitalist underground twelve years and more than 1,000 pages...