Word: turbidity
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...sets, “Taps” is played, and the collaged inhabitants of José González’s sonic dreamworld, halfway between the frozen North and the turbid South, wave him on his way, out into a promising artistic life of his own fashioning...
...Wetherby is a devilishly clever talk show. Moreover, they inhabit a film that commutes briskly through three time zones in one Yorkshire village--the present, the recent past and 1953--the better to study the evidence and, perhaps, baffle the audience. European in form, English in its turbid psychological climate, the film could have been called Last Year at Weatherbad...
...geniuses) on their way to Mount Doom with a mission to destroy the Ring. Cringing and crafty, Gollum is the rebellious servant, subverting Sam's selfless impulses, trying to twist allegiance of the pallid, ailing Frodo away from his friend. (So poignant are Gollum's turbid emotions, and so persuasively is this computer critter integrated with the live performers, that he deserves a special acting Oscar for Best ... Thing.) The devotion of Sam is inspiring. His plea to Frodo--"Don't go where I can't follow!"--makes him the film's real hero...
Long before 9/11, the title of most dangerous terrorist in the world belonged to Abu Nidal. Unlike Osama bin Laden, he disliked being filmed chatting about his ideology over a Kalashnikov. He almost never emerged from the turbid underworld of international crime, and he had no consistent belief system. He switched allegiances with ease. Governments actually paid him just to leave their people alone. Even so, beginning in 1974, he was responsible for 900 murders in 20 nations, according to the U.S. State Department...
...time of "Sweet Smell," the boites that gave a home to the columnists were heading for twilight - or, since they were nightclubs, their final dawn. The Stork Club went bankrupt and then kaput in the 60s. A later disco spurt would revive the turbid El Morocco; it's still there, but unrecognizable. The "21" Club somehow survived as a rich man's steak house until Anne Rosenzweig took over in the 80s and began serving edible food. Toots Shor declined when night games kept reporters from having dinner there with the ballplayers they covered. There were fewer ballplayers...