Word: slenderness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lust, all right, but in the person of Frank Langella as a demonic force from the nether world, there is also a doomed lyrical romanticism, a nocturne by Chopin, infused into the play. Tall, slender, incomprehensible as magic, garbed in a cape of Stygian splendor, with a face sculptured in alabaster, Langella's Dracula is no flittering bat but the noblest prince of darkness-the fallen Lucifer-as the play makes elliptically clear, whom only the Cross and the stake can bring to his apocalyptic destiny. Langella has always been a spectral, neurasthenic figure onstage with a temperament...
...fact, he is so in control that he is to the point of being damn near perfect. The slender, curly red-haired, apple-pie faced Herold strikes a thoroughly All American image--he's modest, he breaks out in a face-wide grin at the slightest provocation, and he doesn't kick water coolers, swear at referees. chase women, or butt in line at the Coop...
...pitying tirade that evokes memories of Richard Burton at his worst. He has clearly bought his wife with his fortune, and the arrival of Schneider's new friend has given Steiger little cause for comfort. Schneider's looks make her suitable for the role of an unfaithful spouse; blonde, slender and very cool, she has infidelity stamped all over her Nordic features. Her chance encounter with the kite-flyer--who is a struggling writer living near Steiger and Schneider on the southern coast of France--soon develops into a full-fledged affair, leading the two lovers to plot the murder...
Paul Dietz, a slender youth in wire-rimmed glasses, loves war games of all kinds-from World War II platoon fights to dungeons and dragons. Says he: "I like to look at the mistakes commanders made in the past, as an intellectual exercise." Colin Camerer has a more direct interest in combat, since he lists as his main concerns "business and power." He adds: "Someone's going to be making decisions, and frankly I want to be there." Eugene Stark, by contrast, has a more modest policy: "I try to appear as normal as possible. If you go around...
...housewives in striped training suits. Sports stores are unable to keep $36.95 imported running shoes in stock. (Adidas sells a white and orange model that glows in the dark, for night jogging.) Day hikers need permits to enter certain overused areas of New Hampshire's White Mountains. A slender, bemused fellow named George Butler, who produced the body-building film Pumping Iron, goes about saying, "The next generation of American men will be unrecognizable," and at the rate at which weight-lifting rigs are selling, it may not take that long...