Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Putney Swope. Robert Downey's film has, with age, lost quite a bit of its bite, but it's still entertaining. It was made at a time when blacks were almost universally regarded as fearsome creatures, and derived a good portion of its punch from that premise. A black man becomes the president of a large Madison Avenue advertising agency by mistake, and proceeds to turn the company on its head. Particularly hilarious are the television commercials that Swope makes up, which put real people in stereotypical ad situations...
...Robert Altman's Nashville. She called it "an orgy without excess" and made it sound like a gentle, cinematic orgasm. ("I sat there smiling at the screen, in complete happiness.") Before, her fans had loved her pyrotechnic style and classy sense of nuance, what you might call enthusiasm with bite. Now, they complained, she has lost her bite and runs only on enthusiasm. When she jumped the gun on Nashville and reviewed it before it had been released in its fully-edited form, even dignified Vincent Canby--a man above these intrigues if ever there was one--found space...
...Someone had to bite the bullet on this," said McLaughlin after the trial, citing a "void in the law. It is high time the issue was decided legally. There has been so much confusion in hospitals, so much pain for families. The medical profession needed guidelines. Now doctors can know where they're going...
...Philosophers expected him to fulfill Rousseau's ideal of the "Noble Savage," while a new breed of doctors eyed him for a test of behavior modification. So many ogling spectators filled the streets when Victor was first taken to Paris, in fact, that he became victor and began to bite the scores of outstretched hands...
...been turned down more times than that. The sun gets hot; it rains from time to time; homesickness is ever-present. Those of us with cars drove as much as an hour and a half twice a day to get to and from the territory. Sometimes dogs bite, doors get shut and little children giggle at the "bookman" in his shorts and tennis shoes. Yet 12 out of the 13 who can are going back...