Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...range is so breathtaking that he can play either a grim soldier, as he did in Hell Is for Heroes, or a buoyantly impish soldier, as he does in the forthcoming Great Escape. Above all, he is to most other movie actors what a young oak is to a pile of fagots...
...Most of the results agreed with predictions. But there was one surprising variation: the surface of Mercury proved to be unexpectedly rough. "We're not talking about vast mountains and valleys," says JPL Radio Astronomer Richard Goldstein. "We're talking about something the size of a pile of rocks or ocean waves...
...very best, his voice sounds as if it were drifting over the walls of a tuberculosis sanitarium?but that's part of the charm. Sometimes he lapses into a scrawny Presleyan growl, and sometimes his voice simply sinks into silence beneath the pile-driver chords he plays on his guitar. But he has something unique to say, and he says it in songs of his own invention that are the best songs of their style since Woody Guthrie...
Many an earnest young writer launching a first novel is like a man trying to raft his belongings across a flooded river. The problem, clearly, is to get the essential items safely over. The temptation is to pile everything on. Paul Brodeur's story nearly founders under its symbolic freight. But the voyage into a world where inner disorder and outer chaos mirror each other makes an absorbing trip...
...appears, and Marian is conveyed to a gloomy, candlelit stone pile inhabited by a coven of skulkers who might have been left over from an Orson Welles production of Wuthering Heights. There is the hulking, rock-silent retainer, Scottow, a homosexual. There is the mad hag, Violet Evercreech. And there is the young mistress of the manor, Hannah Crean-Smith. It develops that there are no children for Marian to oversee; she has been hired, rather slyly, to read La Princesse de Cléves to Hannah. And what is wrong with Hannah? She is a prisoner, that...