Word: blather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speculate on the gap between reality and illusionary art, and on the widely alleged necessity for the artist to behave inhumanely. These gaseous themes have preoccupied the literary mind, determined to romanticize its own workings, too much in this century. Until now, thank heavens, the movies have avoided such blather. Perhaps this dismally attenuated movie will warn other film makers away from a conceit that has not even served literature very well. If so, Resnais's icily expert technique will not have been expended totally in vain . Richard Schickel
Maybe there's some sort of market for this star-studded blather. But for heaven's sake let Woman's Wear Daily mine it. They do a much better job covering the celebs than More can do anyway. What More should devote itself to is something along the lines of its original creation, something in the spirit of A.J. Liebling's writings on the press. Liebling dealt in matters of substance, giving examples from around the country about what can happen when you have a one-paper town, or how publishers force their biases into print...
...agree. He looks as if he would like to kill somebody, very possibly Maclean or Director Gries - the former for penning him up with this bunch of bores, the latter for never finding some visually interesting way to cut through the excessively intricate plot After a lot of witless blather, it turns out that Bronson was only pretending to be a baddie - big surprise! - that he is really a federal agent in disguise. Naturally it also turns out that just about everyone left alive in that plush car when the Indians finally get around to attacking...
Melodramatic and sentimental, the play fans simple thoughts into pseudopoetic blather, but the characters, especially those played by Ryan and Costigan, are piercingly true...
Although his audience probably expected the blather that educators prefer to hide behind, Rosovsky instead proceeded to announce a move that stands today as one of the most prominent decisions of his two - and - one - half-year tenure: "I think that Harvard College needs a new Redbook. It is time to reestablish a consensus that will last another 20 years." The comment by the Japanese - economics - professor - turned - dean, stated in a level, dispassionate voice, meant little or nothing to students gathered in the lofty dining hall. But it set off a wholesale review of undergraduate education that is just...