Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...success of the Scott film derived not from any single gimmick -- like the famous moment when the alien, nurtured unawares by John Hurt's character, pops bloodily out of his chest. Rather, the filmmaker, "using all the tools at his disposal," had created an atmosphere in which every shadow spooks and every sound alarms...
...John Madson, author of Where the Sky Began, a natural history of the prairie. The Rockies govern the climate, forcing the prevailing winds that blow off the Pacific to give up moisture and continue eastward too dry to nourish much other than the hardiest grasses--short in the dry shadow of the mountains, taller toward the Mississippi...
...threat of further violence has cast a long shadow over the Orangemen marches this summer. The grand master of the Orange Order, the Rev. Martin Smyth, has warned his marshals to be "extra vigilant." Last week Tom King, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, made a public plea for restraint. For its part, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, a predominantly Protestant police force, is planning to reroute the ceremonies from possible flash points. But merely changing the line of march could provoke more protests from hard-line Protestants. At any time this summer, the men of Orange could...
...lost the Marines in the barracks in Beirut. Scandals--the "sleaze factor"--shadow the White House and Cabinet. And Reagan committed so many press-conference fluffs and bumbles and misstatements and fantasies wrapped in anecdotes that eventually no one paid that much attention anymore, assuming that that was just the way Reagan was. Who cared? The results seemed to come out all right...
OCCASIONALLY, IN CONTEMPORARY filmdom, a questionably attractive character can be made more appealing by the judicous inclusion of a 5 o'clock shadow. Take, for instance, the Clint Eastwood characters in Dirty Harry. Or look at Mel Gibson in The Year of Living Dangerously, who although certainly not at all unattractive was unquestionably transformed and transubstantiated for the better by the dark smudge under his lips...