Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sellars' furious improvisations are sometimes arbitrary and pretentious, and more than a little of the text sinks in the mire of expressionistic excess. But his reworking is so full of passion, inventiveness and sheer theatrical verve that one cannot help cheering. Dumas's tale of Edmond Dantes, a young - seaman in Napoleonic- era France who is unjustly imprisoned for 18 years and then escapes to seek revenge on those who wronged him, could have been a routine exercise in nostalgia or camp. But Sellars obviously sees grandeur in the play and is determined to make the audience...
Even on dry land his scowl could sink a ship. So Walter Matthau had no trouble at all swashbuckling himself into the character of the peg-legged Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red in Roman Polanski's Pirates. The idea of making a period film appealed to him because "I get to act instead of just being Walter Matthau." But apart from the acting, it has not been a barrel of yo- ho-hos. His beard itched for the first five months, dragging around in his 30-lb. costume has been a drudge, and the wooden leg is not exactly comfortable. Filming...
...Sink That Battleship...
...topmost girders of the Eiffel Tower. Imagine Buckingham Palace under water, and St. Peter's too. Well, that is just a joke, a metaphor, but it is what one travel agent thinks of when she looks ahead to the travel season this spring and summer. "Europe is going to sink into the ocean under the sheer weight of American tourists," says Jane Levin of Boston's Garber Travel Agency. "In 24 years in the travel business, I have never seen it so busy so early. It's incredible...
...began to sink, it got chilly. We zipped up our winter coats and sat on our hands. Some less-than-die hards, feeling confident with the 11-4 lead, began to leave...