Word: passageways
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...party where they forgot to dim the lights: dozens of couples, hugging, smooching, oblivious. In Leavenworth's vast mess hall, inmates grab their silverware from a miniature Conestoga and eat off red-and-white checkered tablecloths; the hoe-down amenities seem almost too perky to bear. In one dim passageway leading to an Illinois cellblock, some wry convict has painted a skillful trompe l'oeil escape route, railroad tracks disappearing into a tunnel and freedom...
...posters for the movie suggest a tale of suspense and intrigue, portraying Ganz and Schygulla crawling along what seems to be a dark passageway. Actually, they are dragging themselves along the carpeted floor of her mansion into the bedroom where they will fiddle as Beirut burns. There is no suspense, no tension in this film only the sustained drone of suppressed angst. Circle of Deceit lacks the mythic color and intensity of Schlondorff's best-known film The Tin Drum. Where the bizarre fantasy of The Tin Drum terrifies and disgusts, the efficient realism of Circle of Deceit fades into...
...cameras for the last few moments. When he was finished and the lights had been turned off, Nixon placed his hand on top of Woodrow Wilson's desk before turning his back for the last time on the Oval Office. I caught up with him in the passageway next to the Rose Garden. I said: "Mr. President, after most of your major speeches in this office we have walked together back to your house. I would be honored to walk with you again tonight." So we walked along the corridor to the residence for the final time...
...officers then helped the protesters pile the trees in a neat four-foot barricade, leaving a passageway for pedestrians to enter and leave the building. Few of the demonstrators, most of who were over registration age, entered the post office, and the barricade was removed late in the afternoon...
...dressing room beneath the stands, the roar of the 103,985 spectators rose and fell like the sound of distant breakers. Then, suddenly, the game was over-and the first black-and-gold jerseys appeared at the end of the floodlit passageway leading from the Rose Bowl playing field. The huge Pittsburgh Steelers ran with mincing steps, cleats sliding nervously on the concrete. Their eyes glittered with exhilaration, and some threw back their heads and whooped triumphantly...