Word: pallid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Skala, belting out their monologues, Broadway-style, in a series of relentless closeups. Only in the evocative dance routines, staged by Choreographer Patricia Birch, does the cast reveal any grace. In fairness, it must be hard to contend with roles like these: most of the male characters are pallid Tennessee Williams retreads, and the women are mere camp stereotypes. The movie's two quasi narrators - a tough dance teacher with a 14-carat heart (Helen Gallagher) and a slick M.C. (Don DeNatale) - are shamelessly derived from such sources as Cabaret, Sweet Chanty and They Shoot Horses...
Remember Keaton in the Godfather movies? Not likely. She was invisible in The Godfather and pallid in The Godfather, Part II. She played Al Pacino's wife, and her role amounted to telling Pacino every now and then to stop killing people so often and spend some time with the kids. Says Keaton: "Pacino was great. Robert De Niro was great. I was background music...
...campaign pits incumbent President Arnold Miller, 54, a taciturn, pallid veteran of 22 years in the mines, against an old friend and an old foe. The former ally is Patrick, 46, a fiery reformer who helped Miller oust the corrupt regime of W.A. ("Tony") Boyle five years ago; Patrick is now U.M.W. secretary-treasurer. The longtime Miller opponent is Lee Roy Patterson, 42, a onetime crony of Boyle's and a member of the union's executive board. Miller appears to be the front runner; Patterson, benefiting from a split in the reform vote between Miller and Patrick...
...modern-history books. That Was the Week That Was, fondly known as TW3, lampooned and lacerated the Establishment, pooh-poohed every fat-cat institution from advertising to Buckingham Palace?and emptied British pubs on Saturday nights. Imported by NBC-TV in 1963, the American version of TW3 lasted two pallid seasons. Frost seemed to have lost ire and interest?or at least good gagwriters. In fact, he was concentrating on the endeavors that were to make him King Frost. He "went soft," as some old mates...
...lead singer of the Dead Boys gyrated in a rent pair of blue jeans occasionally flashing one pallid cheek to the congregation. As he crooned in a raspy baritone, he slid one hand into his pocket and drew out an enormous Bowie knife, which he held to the guitarist's throat in a skinnyboned imitation of a hard-ass punk. After picking his teeth with the knife, the Boy tired of that toy, only to pick out a new one for the next number: a pink plastic pleasure machine, with which he caressed his bony pelvis in mock ecstasy between...