Word: sullens
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...will to endure is strong, almost maniacal. Sands, a cold, sullen man, turned on his bedside radio and listened with a faint smirk to news broadcasts of his own final hours. Even when the end is not far off, there are some lighter moments. Only days before he died, Kevin Lynch asked his family to bring him some cigars. He lay there, his body emaciated, his voice a whisper, blowing smoke toward the ceiling. The mother and girlfriend of Kieran Doherty, 25, were lifting his shrunken body for a rubdown when he almost slid from the bed; the prisoner kidded...
...Ralph Richardson somewhat resembles Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill. His legs are squared apart and appear sturdily embedded in stone. His arms are welded to the arm rests, yet they seem mobilized to catapult him into action. His eyes are banked fires set in a sulky sullen face a trifle mangled by time. As with Churchill, a pixie lurks beneath Richardson's countenance, momentarily threatening to bolt into some unpredictable bit of mischief...
...against the high income he is said to earn putting together international investment deals. On that, as on all other matters involving the case, Agnew had no comment. As he might have put it in the alliterative rhetoric of his vice-presidential years, he sustained a stonewalling stance of sullen silence...
...does this same man (Rutger Hauer) single out of the huge team of police pursuing him the one man, a fellow called Deke, who poses a deadly threat to him and then acquire a detailed dossier on him? Granted, Deke is played by sullen Sylvester Stallone, who tends to stand out in a crowd. Still, Deke has a moody, unexplained thing about not wanting to shoot anyone, so it is strange that the terrorist decides to become obsessed with...
...exclusively on confrontations, statement and counterstatement, all reduced to brief segments of video tape. TV also demands filmable ritual: the waving placards and red-white-and-blue streamers of the quadrennial conventions, celebrated with the ceremonial jollity of an Easter egg hunt perpetuated for children who have grown into sullen adolescence. When TV has finally crowned its Muppety candidates, it reaches for their purses. Of the $60 million in federal funds that Reagan and Carter spent to campaign against each other, more than half went to television. Overall, candidates for federal office spent an estimated $150 million on television...