Word: sullenness
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Bronson's new film, From Noon to Three, shows the sullen superstar as a western bank robber and Ireland as a fetching widow. The script calls for some heavy breathing in the clinches, but apparently not enough to suit the husband-wife team. Complains Bronson: "Sometimes a whole day passes on the set before we can get a few moments to talk about something intimate...
...bold pencil lines that stand out individually and blend to form a unified composition. Gorky chooses a different approach for the portrait of his mother. Here there are no discrete lines; the features are formed by altering the intensity of the charcoal. His careful regulation of tonality enhances the sullen quality of the woman's somber face with large, searching eyes and pursed lips. In another set of drawings, Gorky uses pen and ink hatch marks exclusively to create more abstract human outlines...
...trunk and drive west on impulse without leaving any messages behind. Sheree feels comfortable in cars. She can't handle people very well, but when a machine goes awry she rarely slips up. Her brow is usually rutted, which strangers take for anger. For me, Sheree has a sullen intrigue. To others, she radiates a tension that Ronda deflects with her glib smile and the glinting earring in a pierced nostril. They are always together...
...works like Team of Horses (1911), one of the first abstract paintings ever made in the U.S.: the curling shapes, fringed with sawtooth edges and inset between thick dark lines, are like a premonitory flicker of art deco, but Dove's intent was to convey a sense of sullen, humped energy moving across a landscape...
...accumulated rage that erupted at Bet She'an reflected a growing sense in Israel that the country faces yet another life-and-death crisis-perhaps the most severe in its brief 26-year history. The Israelis watched with sullen dismay when Arab leaders at the Rabat summit recognized the P.L.O. as the sole official representative of Palestinians everywhere, including those in the Israeli-occupied Gaza and West Bank. They listened hi cold fury as Yasser Arafat at the United Nations (TIME, Nov. 25) purportedly offered them an "olive branch" -but budged n6t an inch from his position that Israel...