Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kurosawa had established a reputation with his samurai films. For one thing, many of the actors are prone to excess, in one way or another. Toshiro Mifune, as a rowdy, alternates between bug-eyed rage and glowering indignation; Masayuki Mori, as the idiot, plays everything in a kind of sad-eyed slow motion that conveys saintliness but also causes boredom; and several secondary characters engage in the snorting histrionics that seem peculiarly Japanese. Moreover--presumably because The Idiot originally ran more than six and a half hours and was cut to its present length over Kurosawa's objections--the exposition...
Smith hasn't rounded into form the way McCurdy had hoped and the front two of Hewlett and Crain may well be, sad to say, a front...
There was nothing particularly unusual about it, unfortunately: a couple of nice kids, driving home from a couple of good parties, went off the road. She was killed, he was not. Everybody felt terrible. Then last week-three months after the accident-some thing happened that made the sad, unnecessary death of Nancy Hitchings, 17, of Half Mile Road, Darien, Conn., a matter of national controversy. Circuit Court Judge Rodney S. Eielson, presiding over the trial of 18-year-old Michael Smith for reckless driving and negligent homicide, ordered the arrest of 14 adults for serving alcohol...
Manuel Greenhill, manager of Folklore Productions, which was to sponsor the Boston concert, said he had been unable to wait for the results of MacColl's appeal and had canceled the appearance. He said it was a "sad commentary on the State Department that such a thing should happen to two wonderful people...
...this composition makes Coach McCurdy very sad. He moans the loudest when he recalls the Heptagonals two years ago when three Crimson runners finished first, fourth, and sixth, but the team lost the meet when the next two Harvard men showed up 32nd and 43rd...