Word: sparser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capital's crowds were noticeably sparser than those that had greeted Richard Nixon in 1974. This may have been partly because Carter's presidential motorcade appeared on such short notice, partly because it rolled through the tranquil upper-middle-class suburb of Heliopolis rather than Cairo's crowded working-class quarter. Yet the smaller turnout may also have reflected the Cairenes' growing skepticism at the possibility of peace being near. Said one: "We have been waiting now for peace for more than a year. If Carter has brought peace, we can give him a better farewell...
There are irresistible moments, however, like Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts - a narrative gem about girls, guys, gambling and jealous love. Over all, longtime fans will approve of Dylan's return to an older, sparser folk style...
...spots like Ramon's and The Surf during the Friday afternoon happy hours. The drink of the day was a vicious concoction called a "moonshot" (two-thirds 151-proof dark rum and one-third vodka mixed with cream). Now the drinking ranks are older and sparser, and it is difficult to find a bartender who remembers how to mix a moonshot...
...field of grayish white, his darker footsteps trailing offscreen like an endless umbilical cord. The actual physical setting of Gerald's death is overshadowed by its implications of loneliness and sterility. Compared to the cluttered literalness of most of the film, these few, tentative steps toward approaching a sparser, more abstract method of story-telling are much more suggestive of the grandeur of Lawrence's design...