Word: pallid
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...bouncing along off-Broadway-The Knack tells of a provincial lass (Rita Tushingham) at large in London who stumbles into a house occupied by three oddball bachelors. One is a potent pipsqueak (Ray Brooks), mysteriously endowed with the knack of "making it" with the opposite sex. One is a pallid, reticent schoolteacher (Michael Crawford), for whom the way of a Mod with a maid remains ever beyond reach. The third (Donal Donnelly) is a simple eccentric who spends his energy painting the walls of his room white...
Political Solution. Hoare's handful of "giants" are the only hope for the other whites still held by the rebels, but last week it was a pallid hope at best. Mercenary-led Congolese troops remained pinned down at the Paulis airport by 4,000 Simbas armed with automatic weapons; a second rescue column was forced to retreat to its base at Bunia. As Russian and Red Chinese weapons continued to move in through Uganda and the Sudan, military experts in Leopoldville estimated that Simba firepower had already surpassed that of the Congolese and mercenary forces. Against that background...
...bear it!" she stammered, sweeping a thin and pallid hand across her humid forehead...
...good will? Not exactly. As he recuperated this spring in Honolulu from stab wounds inflicted by a deranged Japanese youth, Reischauer, who is wise in the ways of the Orient, worried about the loss of face his Japanese hosts would suffer if he returned still looking wan and pallid from the ordeal. So day after day, he manfully stretched out on the beach at Waikiki, acquiring a glowing tan for the worried Japanese, who exhaled gustily when he returned to the job looking properly genki (healthy) once again...
...smiles weakly and replies: "Later, if it's all the same to you." And on the side of spectacle the picture provides plenty of snazzy swordsmanship and some attractive Eastman Color. In the last reel, indeed, the screen divulges an image of luminous splendor: in death the pallid Claudia, swathed in red velvet and shimmering with stolen gems, lies sleeping in the moonlight in a golden carriage, lies sleeping like a princess in a legend while her glowing hearse rolls richly through the darkness and sinks down down down into the still black crystal of a forest pool...