Word: uptightness
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...actor is relatively new to the luxury of choosing his films and directors. Trintignant, 41, has emerged only in recent years as a superbly subtle technician of the screen. His taut, understated performances have included such diverse characterizations as the driven public prosecutor in Costa-Gavras' Z, the uptight Catholic in Rohmer's Ma Nuit Chez Maud and the intellectual fascist-killer in Bertolucci's The Conformist. Trintignant's acting style is condensed to a prodigious point of thrift in which complex characters are brought to life with extraordinary economy of gesture and expression. "The best...
...attempts at American food. There is even advice on the inevitable problem of finding a bathroom for a child caught short. "With the exception of the British Isles and The Netherlands," reports Author Hadley, "it's the field, the bush, the woods. No one seems to get very uptight...
...ennoble, uplift, teach, educate, bring out the best." Nor does he like to act in anything he feels would be degrading or undignified for the character he played, unless the artistic terms of the film demanded it -- "but that's just me." An apologetic smile. That is him exactly, uptight but alright...
...Continuum Center in Rochester, Mich., she spends five days or more a week helping men and women define their roles in a program called Investigation into Identity. "My life is so different now, I don't believe it," she says. Neither do some of her old "uptight friends" who cannot understand why she moved out of her home in a fashionable Detroit suburb to live alone on a 43-ft. houseboat on Lake St. Clair. Eleanor's answer is simple and straight to the point: "I don't want a conventional...
...words. They have been replaced by the life words "feeling" and "impulse." Consciousness-the rational-is presumed to be shallow and unconsciousness-the irrational-to be always interesting, often profound and usually true. Cooper's law: "Truth is an unspeakable madness." Sanity is snobbishly looked down upon as uptight and bourgeois. Never has William Blake's Romantic maxim been so believed: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...