Critique: Impressively informative, exceptionally well written, thoroughly engaging in organization and presentation, "
Hangdog Days: Conflict, Change, and the Race for 5.14" is an extraordinary and unique sports history that is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library collections.
That is almost two grades harder than the 5.14 limit written about in
Hangdog Days, but without the debate of bolting routes and hangdogging in the 1980s, routes like Silence may have never been climbed.
The manager has also harnessed that
hangdog pessimism which has become a Blue trademark, constantly reminding his players and the fans that nothing should be taken for granted, and that every day is a new fight to be won.
This morning I saw his
hangdog face as he sat in the backyard, drawing circles in the dirt with a stick.
Making an abrupt about-face from his previous "Plato's Academy," helmer Filippos Tsitos favors bold lensing in this tale of a
hangdog police interrogator and a cleaning lady whose diverse fundamental outlooks make a true connection impossible.
salt, she dives in, cranes shoulders into her
hangdog back.
I'm not even sure that it's down to Gianni, the
hangdog, stay-athome husband - all rueful smiles and Robert Mitchum-like baggy eyes - who has retired from work, sleeps apart from his wife and spends his days running errands and walking his dog.
For a man whose face oozes gloom, it was not difficult for Grant to adopt a
hangdog look as he pondered his future just a year afters taking Portsmouth in the same direction.
The price of cathode fell to US$3,000 per ton at present from US$8,000 last year, Buda Prison
Hangdog, a company manager, said.
Factotum BBC2, Today, 11.30pm This bleak yet witty comedy, based on the novel by Charles Bukowski, revolves around a charismatically
hangdog Matt Dillon as a hard-drinking but sharp-witted would-be author unable to keep a job, but possessed of a burning passion for writing, women and booze.
A sensitive, underplayed performance from Auteuil holds this otherwise lightweight film together - his multitude of
hangdog expressions consummately capturing a certain kind of middle-aged selfishness.
Lennon, Modric and Pavlyuchenko have flowered under
Hangdog Harry, but the one I think has profited most is Tom Huddlestone.
Mom was crying because there wasn't any food in the house and Pop was just sitting there with that
hangdog look on his face.
No wonder David Spritz (Nicolas Cage) has a
hangdog expression other than when he's in front of the camera when it gives way to a fake, cheesy smile.
Against the various familiar
hangdog intellectual trends that reduce human beings to "corks bobbing on the waves of history," Hayward offers the noble words and deeds of Churchill and Reagan as anecdotal proof--is there any other kind available?--of the permanent possibility of heroic achievement.
