Word: placide
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...hands would be the stuff of a passionate play. But Kurosawa's mood now is autumnal and dispassionate. What really interests him is an imagery that can only be termed timeless: the look of an army on the march, silhouetted against a setting sun or outlined against a placid shoreline or engaged in night battle on a ground as mysteriously dark as the midnight sky. The hell-bent arrival of a messenger in a besieging army's encampment, or in a peaceful palace courtyard, becomes a little epiphany on the frantic nature, and perhaps the absurdity...
...although he was passed four times by crimson Beanpot winners in 1977, Craig tended the nets of the best college icemen in the nation in 1978. Nationally celebrated in this country along with a handful of other noble young skaters who battled and defeated the Soviet Union at Lake Placid, Jim Craig continues his too-good-to-be-true existence...
Coming off of such a monumental achievement--winning the Olympic gold--perhaps anything that follows might be a letdown. Craig disagrees. "I'm not trying to match the excitement of Lake Placid, I'm just trying to do different things. I'm always pushing myself and if I obtain my goals I'll be happy...
...attack in jail without creating a martyr and risking the collapse of the regime. He knows he alone can help Marcos stem the ever-swelling tide of revolution in a country that, as he says, "has been under martial law for far too long." Although he bounds about the placid office in Coolidge Hall with energy remarkable for someone just weeks removed from major coronary surgery, he knows the danger to his health and to his life if he returns. He also realizes he cannot stay away too long. "I don't want to regret ten years from now--when...
...past, Miss's works have been more successfully integrated with their sites. An outdoor piece done for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid used an existing path running down a wooded hillside. Miss designed a series of gates and fences along the path, the uppermost gate framing a spectacular view. Another work, built for the Battery Park landfill site in New York City, consisted of a series of flat wooden structures with holes cut in them. If the viewer stood at one end, the holes would be in alignment and the viewer could focus on a measured expanse...