Word: pallid
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...Immoral Mr. Teas," which earned something like 80 times its production cost, earned Meyer his notoriety, and his first fortune. But the no-dialogue, bright-colored nudie comedy was a limited format, and it took a while for him to think of something else. Meanwhile, he ground out more pallid imitations of "Teas." In "Wild Gals of the Naked West" - starring, as "Teas" had, a veteran of Meyer's World War II unit, the 166th Signal Corps (this time Sammy Gilbert) - the girls wore bejeweled pasties, "covering the money," as his producer Pete deCenzie grumbled. Even Meyer wasn't crazy...
...science is straightforward. Two years ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a "biological opinion," urging the Army Corps of Engineers, which regulates the water, to change the way it runs the dams, warning that the steady flow threatens three endangered species: the piping plover, least tern and pallid sturgeon, a long-snouted behemoth that looks like a refugee from the Jurassic period. A higher spring flow would signal the sturgeon to spawn and would provide food; the piping plover would find hospitable nesting ground on sandbars carved out by the rushing current. A summer drawdown would create shallows...
...other days of college life were pallid in comparison with the great festival of Commencement,” wrote
...veiled eyelids, stub-like nose and hairless head, it is difficult to determine whether her expression is one of miserable resignation or of defiant helplessness. Her androgynous body is bloated and motionless. Her paradoxically lush and painterly style enhances the painting’s macabre and moribund tone. The pallid fleshy hues that dominate Saville’s palette and the thick, deliberate way in which she applies these colors contribute to an overall sense of impotent frustration and internal rage. The subject is clearly a victim, but is unclear who the victimizer is—perhaps internal mutilation...
Still, even with this memorable sequence involving Irons, I caught myself wishing for a more violently humorous depiction of Mara’s fate. While she was stuck behind bars and looking pallid, I was hoping for some cinematic, futuristic depiction of the famed “bodice ripper” genre of fiction. And in my yearning for this naughtiness the real problem of the movie is revealed. The Time Machine is stuck in trying-to-please-every-demographic-land. It’s rated PG-13 so that children cannot see it; there’s no foul...