Word: sullenness
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REACTIONS to Lianna's transformation cover only the extremes. Like her two children, Lianna's friends respond with either sullen avoidance or indifferent acceptance. The college football coach, a friend of Lianna's, does not mind homosexuality in his players as long as it doesn't affect their game. Lianna's female friend Sandy remembers with revulsion the time she held hands with Lianna. A colleague of Dick's, who discovers Lianna's new sexual orientation after she rejects him as a lover, asks no questions and tries to play it extremely cool. None of the characters bring anything...
...article "Prague's Sullen Winter" [Jan. 10] you say "a middle-level executive is responsible for overseeing the production of 2 million tons of canned meat a day." Two million tons is 4 billion lbs. With a global population of 4.585 billion this is almost 1 lb. of meat a day for every person in the world. No wonder the plant cannot meet its quota...
...film's conceit is promising at the outset. The highly effective opening scenes show a dove like flock of young choristers running out from under the dripping Gothic gargoyles of a London church. Among them we find the darkly clad figure of a sullen young man in his early 20s (Sting). This stranger begins deliberately accosting passerby on the rainy street with an "accidental" jostle and a subsequent "Why, you're the last person I expected to see!" Someone finally falls for this deception--Thomas E. Bates(Denholm Eihott) a harried middle-aged writer of mass-produced inspirational verse...
...HOWARD DOESN'T JUST best you at blackjack," Benita warns Willy in one of the film's more tensely dramatic moments; "he seats you at life!" "I just don't know when I'm at," is Willy's sullen reply. She: "You're at the end of the line!" And so they decide together to murder Howard, trump it up, as an accident, and collect on the insurance...
...This action tries to capture the madness of the quest. But a symbol requires subtlety, and once again. Herzog stitles, all nuances. The ship is indeed dragged across the land with help him the Indians who, having stepped out from behind their ominuos drumbeat, trurn to be disappointingly sullen rather than mysterious. For at least a half hour they pull the creaking ship through the slimy mud. By the time Molly-Aida gets to the other side. we,ve seen so much sweat and struggle that the achievementseem the inevitable trumph of enough muscle, rather than the culmination...