Word: shawl
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...fruitful kind of insanity." Mad or just modern, it hardly matters, for Sarah is above all an actress. In one of the film's most powerful scenes, we find Sarah in her room, at her mirror. One hand clutches her shawl, the other furiously sketches self-portraits-anguished cartoons of the madwoman of Lyme Regis. They could be rough drafts for an asylumed future, or rehearsals for her climactic meeting with Charles, but they are certainly the carefully fevered preparations an actress makes for her big scene...
...musters all of her commanding appeal as a brothel madam singing "I Never Do Anything Twice." Perched on a stool by the piano, a black lace shawl draped over her shoulders. Reed stretches out her legs, throws back her head and recounts escapades with kinky abbotts and other unusual clients, always returning to the admonishment that she never repeats her experiences. Her husky voice seeps into the darkness around the spotlight, reaching the back rows with its delicious bawdiness...
...that different from watching a colostomy, or any other doctor-work; among other things, it makes for lousy dialogue, and Ordinary People is full of it, endless psychobabbled colloquys between Conrad and his psychiatrist (Jewish, of course) who smokes cigarettes, drinks bottomless cups of coffee, wears shawl-collared cardigans to the office, and agrees to be Conrad's "friend" for 50 bucks an hour. It seems as if Redford should be satirizing this too, all these people saying "Do you want to talk about it?"; satirize the dumb kid who wants to kill himself as well, if it weren...
...rebuilding the party. In the January elections that returned his mother to power, Sanjay not only won a seat for himself but hand-picked at least 100 winners in other constituencies. Wholly loyal, these young politicians even imitated Sanjay's customary dress: a pajama suit and kashmir shawl. More recently, Sanjay had run the campaign of his mother's party in state elections, where it won majorities in eight legislative assemblies and lost only in Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras...
...vision of one 78-year-old holy man. There are Khomeini posters everywhere, not to mention Khomeini coins, plaques, plates, ash trays, calendars and T shirts. The faithful wait in line for hours to catch a glimpse of him, and the truly lucky get close enough to toss a shawl or a handkerchief in his direction. Some Westernized Iranians are not particularly impressed by this evidence of a personality cult abuilding. "We didn't take down the Shah's picture merely to put up the Ayatullah's," complained a university student last week. But many...