Word: paling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clod," he said, suddenly capable of speech. "Why do you have to go changing the complexion of my maid-pale peace at this hour of the morning. I feel sick...
...Poor. Somehow it all comes through; hurt, humor, sentimentality and a touch of sidewalk cynicism survive in the pale, lined face. And somehow it all seems more real than the too-gay sex that Lilo (wife of a French marquis) flaunts like a cancan girl, that Vicky Autier (a protegee of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor) flashes with calculated abandon. Compatriots abroad in a big city. the three women speak of each other with affection. "If we were all in Paris at the same time." admits Lilo, "we would probably tear each other to pieces." Explains Vicky: "Lilo...
...eyes fell sentimentally on a small card, whose simple words, "For My Loving Son," were framed in pale lilies. The Valentine he had received last year was just like it. They hadn't signed it, but Lucius was nobody's fool, and he knew it came from home. Getting right back to business, he slipped off his mittens and began searching through the cards...
...turned novelist. As a poor, radical student in 1934, he started Algeria's only theater, for which he wrote, acted, directed. To get experience, he used to play one-night stands all over North Africa, finally wrote three dramas between 1944 and 1949. Fellow actors remember him as pale, sickly, with "an extraordinary radiance." Last week the Camus radiance was back onstage, in one of the year's most exciting theatrical events: the opening in Paris of Camus' long-awaited dramatic version of Dostoevsky's The Possessed. Le Monde expressed the consensus of Paris critics...
...when you see a slickly-staged job of Shadow of a Gunman, you wonder whether Sean O'Casey invokes the world's enduring sentimentality for the Irish to obscure the fact that he dwells on an incident that seems trivial, an incident that is sadly pale when set beside the heroic achievements in human terror of which people have proven themselves so capable...