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...time arguably the best film critic in operation, has turned into the Hubert Humphrey of film criticism. She comes on chatty and playful when talking about film techniques, valuing good stars above acting and sensual excess over rigor, all the time letting us know that under that tigress bite of hers beats a heart which overflows with sympathy. She makes sufficient noises in the vague directions of liberalism to insure our recognition that she cares in the correct way about moral and political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient, yet most of the time...
...time arguably the best film critic in operation, has turned into the Hubert Humphrey of film criticism. She comes on chatty and playful when talking about film techniques, valuing good stars above acting and sensual excess over rigor, all the time letting us know that under that tigress bite of hers beats a heart which overflows with sympathy. She makes sufficient noises in the vague directions of liberalism to insure our recognition that she cares in the correct way about moral and political issues which the films she sees might raise. She is overwhelmingly ebullient, yet most of the time...
...hale looking scholar with an authoritative manner," wrote Robert van Gelder in the New York Times. "There goes the most objectionable type of Harvard man," fumed an irate New England matriarch. Quoth the editors of Time: "a Boston Brahmin with a bite...
...those who know him best Sam Morison's bark is worse than his bite. At the age of fifty-four, the scholar with an almost forbidding air of formality has mellowed into an affable squire with a Pickwickian sense of humor. Though his main interests are still U. S. History before 1860 and Christopher Columbus, to hear him talk one would think that life consisted solely of sailing, horseback riding, and the tinkle of slender glasses filled with wine. Back in 1917 Professor Morison talked differently. The call to arms saw him enlist as a private, and though he never...
Luckily, the Fenway area provides a host of alternatives. Catering to pre- and post-game revelers, as well as the overflow of ticketless fans, these bars and restaurants are great places to catch a bite to eat and some game-day atmosphere. No one—not even a soulless Yankees fan—will be disappointed by all that the Fenway has to offer...