Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three P's of Raiders football," according to Matt Millen, their analytical linebacker, "are pointing, pushing and penalties." Yet, remembering the Raiders' visit to Washington 14 weeks ago, Redskins Receiver Art Monk cannot contain his delight. "Pushing, shoving and fighting," says Monk with a sigh. "That was the most fun I ever had in a game." Washington won, 37-35, but everyone involved looked forward to another day, and here it is. Next Sunday the XVIIIth greatest spectacle created by man will break fresh ground in Tampa...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY My Last Sigh, Luis Bunuel, the father of the surrealist cinema, remarks that the one unifying principle of his first film, "Un Chien D'andalou," was that "no idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted." In telling his life story, Bunuel likewise rejects interpretation. His memoirs are a rambling collection of disparate reveries, images, jokes, each of them entirely absorbing. Bunuel does not draw upon these to form conclusions of any sort, to make aesthetic judgements or to evaluate the importance of various events in the development...
...LAST SIGH by Luis Buñuel Translated by Abigail Israel Knopf; 256 pages...
...films are argument enough for his place in movie history. With My Last Sigh, Buñuel allows himself to be seen in another light: as that most engaging of con artists, the raconteur. Reading the memoir is like spending a long, lazy afternoon in his presence. His voice never rises above a murmur. A small smile engages his face as he recalls some long-ago provocation that today scandalizes no one. Now and then he dozes. On one such afternoon this summer, Buñuel nodded off into immortality...
...imagines that his last sigh was an "aahhh" as wry and reflective as this lovely book...