Word: waved
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...frame of the film. When a character asks emphatically, "Wasn't Bob the first to use American methods?" it becomes clear that the comment contains a sly self-reference to Melville himself; it was Melville's use of "American methods" that influenced the later French filmmakers of the New Wave...
...have to come into his country regularly. He would guarantee that Lebanon no longer would be a launching pad for terrorist acts against Israel or other neighbors of Lebanon. But he had no time to achieve even a portion of his ambitions, and his death brought a new wave of terror to the stricken country of Lebanon...
President Saddam Hussein, on Khomeini's fanatical Islamic Guards, who suicidally hurled themselves at the enemy in one human wave after another. In doing so, they upset the operations of the regular army. At least three Iranian brigades were destroyed in the early stages of the offensive; total Iranian losses during the campaign now stand at about 12,000 dead and 20,000 wounded. For their part, Islamic zealots are charging the army with treason. Says an army officer: "Tension between the guards and the army is higher than ever...
Avery was not good at maintaining a suavely impasted surface, though sometimes he could bring one off with real subtlety the bursting fan of foam over the rocks in White Wave, 1954, is like a Monet haystack made of water, not grass. But the major Averys, like Sea and Sand Dunes, 1955, or Speedboat's Wake, 1959, are thin, taut, nearly as evanescent looking as weather itself. Their pictorial construction is achieved almost entirely through color: the weight of a red, the brooding distension of a purplish sea against a blue headland. Nothing is subordinate in such paintings...
Individual performances come shining through, in spite of the temptation to simply let songs like "I Want You Back." "Heat Wave," and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" do the entertaining. Darcel Spear, a 17-year-old show-stopper, consistently executes the best. Her youthful energy explodes on "My Cherie Amour" and "I Heard it Through the Grape Vine." The irony of her singing songs which departed play lists long before she started tuning in radio airwaves makes her performance particularly refreshing. Everett Gibson, a Boston University junior with more muscles in his face than most people have in their...