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...rarely have been invited into such sacred premises were offered scrambled or poached eggs, sausage or bacon or both, English muffins or toast. The elegant White House waiters passed those 800 Flamenco No. 1 cigars. All of that didn't prevent Albert and O'Neill from giving blunt assessments about the prospects for Nixon's legislative proposals, but they went back to Congress having been part of a dialogue, not schoolchildren summoned for another flipchart show by Haldeman and Ehrlichman...
Blake's performance is blunt and highly charged; Mitchell Ryan is tensely controlled except for a regrettable mad scene. But everyone else in the cast has apparently confused energy with volume, intensity with hysteria. The result might most kindly be described as dissonant. Even a record producer should have been able to spot do that. a longhair a favor, he gets blasted
...much posed, and the profile of the body against its dark background is a trifle obvious as a metaphor of hills and undulant landscape. But in the best of these pictures, like The Sauna, 1968, and Indian Summer, 1970, laconic composition and reflective grasp of structure place this sturdy, blunt frame before us with a tender but remote specificity. Fact as poetry is becoming Wyeth's strength. · Robert Hughes
...which sinew and muscle and the accouterments of a savage and irrepressible game warfare were dedicated to the sole purpose of thwarting repeatedly (and failing repeatedly) the thrusts and advances of the tripartite attack. The Line, molding and fusing local with international into the Harvard experience, blending the blunt and terrible gutteral tones of New England hockey articulation with the suave and impeccable scholastic interests on university living...
...intellectual considerations, giving and enlightening more than laboratories and lecture podiums could ever hope to enlighten, bringing the street, the gouge-and-vindicate philosophy of the middle- and lower-class New England street, into the academic world, and holding, hypnotizing, mystifying, and then delighting with pure speed and blunt force any Ivy League audience. What can you do about a Local Line...