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Word: sullenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Midnight Blush, Ginger Interlude, and seduction Night Sienna. The Timex and Bulova displays are cruelly juxtaposed on another counter, just across, to remind you that you are old, or will be soon, and will be in want of makeup. Back at the makeup counter, you shrink under the sullen gaze of the desperately nubile females trapped in their placards. There are piles of solemn light green pamphlets like the AWAKE pamphlets the Jehovah Witnesses push on passersbys. IS SKIN PERFECTIBLE? catechize the covers. Is man? you think is the older question, but inured to devaluations of this sort, you study...

Author: By Karen A. Odom, | Title: Drugstore | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...young valet in black who hovers wordlessly in virtually every scene of the Don's, often exchanging intimate glances with him. A nemesis? An illegitimate son? A homosexual lover? (A dubious motif also suggested by the epicene revelers at the Don's supper.) The figure, mimed with sullen sensuality by Eric Adjani (Isabelle's brother), remains cryptic and annoyingly gratuitous. He does, however, make a perfect emblem for Losey's whole approach. This Don Giovanni deserves the old line once used by Dorothy Parker to describe the Alps: beautiful but dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Only the Mozart Is Missing | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

There is something inherently suspect about institutionalizing something as spontaneous as humor, and something even obscene in making it a sullen competition for yuks, as the Lampoon has done. The resultant brand of humor, inevitably perhaps, irritates--no, it offends. And by this I don't mean to carp on racism and sexism, although I think these elements are well in evidence in On the Lam. Rather, I mean the sort of comedy that points down, from an affected stance of intellectual or cultural superiority, lacking any sort of humanism or fellow feeling, without any hint that the Lampoon itself...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Dissertation on Roast Pig | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Yale owned the Sprints. Under a cloudy, sullen sky, the Crimson eight never countered an explosive Yale start and couldn't sustain any threat in the 2000-meter contest. Senior Charlie Altekruse, the Harvard captain this year, says, "We knew even before the Sprints that they were a big, strong crew and they could take it out early. That's what they did. They were able to hold on in the middle of the race, and in such a short race, they could push...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: That Ol' Thames River Magic--Again | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

WORCESTER--On sullen, gray Lake Quinsigamond, a brawny Yale heavyweight crew yesterday frustrated the hopes of coach Harry Parker's oarsmen for an undefeated season and a national championship...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Heavies Fall for Second Straight Year in Sprints | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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