Word: hauntedness
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"Paris-Paris" does not begin with this advantage. It is an elegy, haunted by a sense of loss. The period it covers, 1937-1957, was precisely the time when the queen city began, like some Venice of modernism, to slide into debility. It is a simplification, but not a wholly...
The film might have been made in the 1940s, when "regional" writers were charting new corners of the American subconscious and film makers like Frank Borzage and Clarence Brown were spring-cleaning old work clothes and folkways. If there is an intrusive touch of modernism, it comes from Shepard, the...
Nerves frayed as physical exhaustion set in. Divers worked in a murky tangle of air and communication lines, hot water continuously pumping through their wet suits for warmth. Said Supervising Diver Steve Jennings: "This is the hardest-bad currents, high seas, a rotting ship. The Doria was a weird wreck...
What is remarkable about Meryl Streep's brief film career?Sarah is her first really big role?is that she has brought this same feeling of inevitability even to relatively minor parts. In The Deer Hunter she had only a few important scenes, but it requires a wrenching effort now...
Just hearing things, of course-like listening for waves in a sea shell. It did not occur to the air-traffic controllers to deliver that sort of archaic soliloquy, haunted by scruples. Most of them judged, briskly enough, that their desire for a 32-hour week and a minimum of...