Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that there was a danger that the leaders would become followers. "There's competition among the N.A.A.C.P., CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), 'Snick' (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and Martin Luther King Jr.'s group. They think the group that's most militant will wind...
After three years of aggressive fund-raising and reams of campaign literature (estimated to contain twice the number of words in Gone with the Wind, President Pusey was able to announce that the fund drive had not only reached its goal but had surpassed it with contributions totalling...
...their strongest tool. They evoke it with sounds: a transistor radio in de Wilde's shirt pocket twanging hillbilly anthems, the slamming of a screen door on a hot night, the screak-screak of the ice-cream freezer on the back porch, the relentless whistling of the wind scorching in off the plains, the brutal whump of the springs of the Cadillac as it guns across the railroad tracks. They also evoke it with the black-and-white camera of Old Master James Wong Howe: Dr. Pepper signs, juke joints, a greased-pig rodeo...
...characters are mostly Characters, and the sound track turns on a spigot marked Brahms to cue every tender moment. But L-Shaped Room shrugs off these shortcomings to become a beautiful and refreshing film. Part of the credit goes to Director Bryan Forbes (Whistle Down the Wind), whose screenplay honestly makes the unwed-motherhood story a low-key masterpiece of candor and sensitivity. A larger share goes to Leslie Caron; she plays not a girl who "got into trouble" but a young woman of remarkable dignity who, after a loveless weekend affair, chooses the less convenient road. Faced with...
Protective Cold. Paradoxically, the fact that the raw March wind was a frigid 14°F. and the river was close to 32° was in Roger's favor. When he lost his hold on the ice and fell in, he was already exhausted and chilled; he probably did not fight much for air, and as a result he inhaled less water than he might have. The icy river soon dropped his body temperature-certainly below 75°, but how much lower, nobody knows-so that when he drowned and circulation stopped, his brain suffered less from oxygen deprivation...