Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work, autumnal hair with a fine early frost. He could be a cousin of his fellow Rocky Mountain resident Robert Redford. Then look closer and find a superhero's face as it might have been drawn by Wallace Wood for a Mad comic- book parody. The jawline, a shade too prominent, entertains the rumor of buffoonery. The smile is one of unwarranted self-assurance. His eye squint seems not to have registered that the world sees him differently: as a preening oaf. With every gesture he is screaming, Help! I'm a clown trapped in a leading man's body...
...installment in what promises to be a new genre--or perhaps a twitch or movement--in French cinema: "the beautiful psychotic girl on the beach" film. It was introduced to American audiences last year by Jean-Jacques Beneix in his film adaptation of the bestseller 90 Degrees in the Shade. While the resulting film, Betty Blue, was the tale of an artist struggling against a world of assholes, Frank's story is that of a teenager named Chris (Valerie Kaprisky) struggling against the sterile adult promiscuity and warped class relations which overshadow life on a French beach...
...them] again....[a]ll those goblins of growing up--fear, envy, insecurity and sloth," Schumer writes after a return to her freshman room. "And all that I saw in that room, in which I began my most difficult years, were two opened windows and the loop of a shade fluttering in the breeze...
With undefeated junior varsity and freshman crews last season, and several returning members from a varsity Eight that in '86 was just a shade away from victories in major regattas, Harvard was almost a consensus preseason pick as the heavyweight crew to beat...
...years past, Harvard has plowed most of its profits back into the endowment. The University will retreat from that conservative stance just a shade next year, spending $55.3 million rather than the planned $54.3 million on the yearly costs of keeping the College running...