Word: beckoning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
These are not tranquil times for the U.S. Protest on every hand makes depressing reading when autumn colors and football and the World Series beckon. Yet division and dissatisfaction are unalterable facts of life these days. Because they can-indeed must-be brought to light, they bear testimony to the essential strength of American society...
...vision is unsettling and thought-provoking. Its still difficult to accept wholly but it is clear to me at least that self-searching along these lines will be necessary, a steeling of the mind to reject any lavish but corrupt opportunities that may beckon in favor of a simpler and more frugal, but more satisfying, life...
...other by way of East Germany to consult with party leaders there. The conference would most likely take place at either a villa at Zlatá Idka near Košice or a country lodge in the High Tatra Mountains. In both places, the Soviet leaders could easily beckon Russian troops who are tarrying in Eastern Slovakia. However close the troops, Dubček certainly did not plan to cower or apologize. Instead he hoped to take the offensive himself at the outset. The Czechoslovaks have some grievances of their own concerning Soviet domination of both the Warsaw Pact...
...curiously at Moreau until she pushes him off a balcony and his face turns from pure narcissism to pure terror. Another director might have made the balcony scene an urban one; Truffaut stages it along the Côte d'Azur, where Photographer Raoul Coutard makes the outside beckon like a Cezanne landscape. Even a minute role played by a little boy is observed with special insight. When Moreau puts on glasses and tries to con the boy into accepting her as his teacher, he reacts with an air of whimsical gamesmanship; it is a put-on, he decides...
...lighting has been a blanketing red or blue. Now, two spot lights flash onto the floor just ahead of the dancers (Scott Kemper, Lindsay Ann Crouse). The dancers beckon the light-dots backwards, and as the spots climb on to the backdrop, they become beach-balls, rolling along the shadows of dancers' extended arms or bouncing between the two. The spots free themselves, scurry around the room as the dancers desperately attempt to pounce back into the light now two dimensional again. This section ends, the dancers on their backs, legs pointing upwards, with the dots poised just above--inverted...