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Word: lochinvar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meets Franz Kafka" and describes its unique, post-Orwellian setting as "somewhere on the Los Angeles-Belfast border." The film's hero, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), shambles efficiently through his job at the Ministry of Information records department but lives for his dreams, in which he is girded like Lochinvar, aloft like Icarus, fighting to save a fair heroine from giant samurai and evil, baby-faced thugs. One day he meets Jill Layton (Kim Griest), a truck driver who lived in the flat above the late Mr. Buttle's and looks exactly like Sam's dream girl. To be near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Happy Ending for a Nightmare Brazil | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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