Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peale longed to be the official artist of the Revolution, the portraitist of its heroes -- especially of Washington, whom he painted over and over again with stiff, idolizing devotion for more than 20 years. It is a small example of the utter unfairness of art that for all his labors it was not Peale who created Washington's definitive icon for posterity but rather Gilbert Stuart -- a better artist but also a Tory who had cut and run for England when the cannons fired and only came back, as he put it, "to make a fortune by Washington alone...
...Station for the Odessa Steps sequence. Fortunately, Paramount let me really run wild." Steel also suggested the essential extravagance of signing Giorgio Armani, the Milanese couturier, to dress most of the characters. Working from photos of '30s gangster films, Armani reworked period shapes into a style that was less stiff, more drapable. Instead of dressing Ness blandly, Armani put him in darkly glamorous three-piece suits; rather than make Nitti gritty, he clothed him like a sepulchral angel, in gleaming white synthetics...
...would buy something if you'd take my Visa," a particularly stiff Ohioan said the other...
...deeply troubled with moral dilemma...should men who let their beards get if their soup be put to death? Are we taking manners too seriously--putting our civilization above humanity? Perhaps a strong reprimand and a stiff fine will do...but how can we be sure he won't do it again...
...very slim. Extreme Prejudice, the latest installment in the inconsistent career of Hollywood stoneface Nick Nolte, purports to be a classic action film, combining elements from spy thrillers, cops-and-robbers flicks and even Westerns. Extreme Prejudice, however, is actually an amusing farce about a group of characters so stiff with machismo that their joints creak every time they reach for their trusty six-shooters. Which is often...