Word: undertows
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...Presidential Trip," the document warned them about dread diseases, from dysentery to yellow fever, that they might encounter on the seven-day, 15,000-mile journey to four countries. The statement also cautioned them about "treacherous, steep drop-offs" on the road between Caracas and the airport, the undertow off Rio de Janeiro's beaches, bad drinking water in Nigeria and poisonous mamba snakes in Liberia...
Britishers are again being told to leave their place in India to the Indians. The rippling comedy in Staying On assumes an undertow that will pull Tusker down...
...dance opera;" avant-garde choreographer Meredith Monk, who appeared at the Loeb last year, uses the same term to describe her art. In Monk's works there seems to exist a deeply-felt controlling image beyond the shifting motifs of the dance surface. I didn't sense any single undertow of meaning in "Clearfield," though perhaps Soll intended one. Rather, it seemed as if the dance began and ended in stillness, its images like whispers heard above a soft drone...
...most saline of American writers finds himself unable to escape the tenebrous undertow of Jewish mysticism. "My inclination is to resist the imagination when it operates in this way," he writes. "Yet I, too, feel that the light of Jerusalem has purifying pow ers and filters the blood and the thoughts. I don't forbid myself the reflection that light may be the outer garment...
...Square. Sort of a mixture of War Games and Last Year at Marienbad--a wordless, one-night love affair takes place against the background of documentary footage of Hiroshima. Resnais is not being profound or fascinating in a verbal way, but the film has deep pull, like a strong undertow. It will always be "One million degrees in Peace Square...