Word: slog
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acting in the movie seems stiff and wooden, it is because the characters are being asked to play paradigms rather than people. Each character typifies a different ideology, so the movie becomes as heavily symbolic as a Brecht musical. The actors slog through the transition from hyper-realstic to symbolic looking rather bewildered...
...from 1961 to 1986 the Art Institute's curator of 20th century painting) and Mark Rosenthal of the Philadelphia Museum, who wrote its catalog. It will travel through 1988 to Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New York City. An hour at it can be a fairly exhausting experience, like a slog toward a receding horizon across the plowed clay fields that are Kiefer's favorite landscape. His canvases are huge in size and engulfing in scale; he is, one notes, one of the few artists around who really do understand the scale of images and do not paint big just...
...result, the U.S. Forest Service, cautious guardian of the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, has decided to let the general public have a closer look at a postvolcanic environment. Since early May, some 100 climbers a day have been issued permits to slog across solidified mudflows, or lahars, and up through snowfields to the lip of the crater...
...They slog through the outback for a few days, where she learns how to hypnotize animals, twist the heads off snakes and avoid those terrifying crocodiles lurking in every innocent-looking lake. The film is dotted with humorous scenes, including a laugh-out-loud encounter with a modern aborigine...
...groups soon became entangled, and the police would have had to slog through the growing group of formally clad alumni to remove the members of the blockade...