Word: blahness
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...King of Kings, Light of the Aryans, who dreamed of creating an economic and military superpower that would recall the Persian Empire of Cyrus the Great. He developed an imperial ego to match his vision, placing his crown on his own head like Napoleon, dismissing all opposition as "the blah-blahs of armchair critics" and boasting that "nobody influences me, nobody...
There are flashes of excitement in The Great Train Robbery, but the thrills have little to do with locomotives or crime. This film's heat is generated almost exclusively by Lesley-Anne Down, who played Georgina in Upstairs, Downstairs. After too many blah roles in bad movies (The Betsy, A Little Night Music), Down has a fine role in a mediocre movie. It's all she needs to begin her film career in earnest. Though The Great Train Robbery is on the wrong track, Down...
...body of alumni, as well as grants from the usual foundations; the presence of students, which Brustein convincingly argues is conducive to creativity; and on some level, perhaps, the poetic justic of being asked to leave the Yale School of Drama and then hitching up to arch-rival Harvard; blah blah blah blah...
...Novelist Saul Bellow called the "kiss-the-ground-at-Ellis-Island attitude." Many are the shards and barbs on the road to becoming American. U.S. television is a big turn-off for Europeans. So, at least initially, are permissive child rearing, much so-called gourmet food, gun-toting cops, blah-blah cocktail parties, football and baseball, bubble gum, littered streets, first-naming on first encounter, and such other indue -ers of culture shock as the warning on a hotel dressing table that greeted one European couple on their first night in New York: YOUR DAY ENDS...
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