Word: boiling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boil them,' I told...
...seems to boil down to a question of who can hold out longer...
Despite all the theories, the playoffs boil down to the individual teams. In the East, the Capital Bullets meet the New York Knicks and the Celtics battle the Buffalo Braves...
...special joy is that this is Lester's first film since the wizardly but little-seen Bed Sitting Room, which played in the U.S. in 1969 for approximately the time it would take to soft-boil an egg. Lester made his reputation from his two gymnastic Beatles movies, but his later work (most notably How I Won the War and Petulia) disclosed a deeper, even more enterprising talent-one tempered by a pointed satiric force. The Three Musketeers is not so astringent; it is ebullient, full of roughhouse, and careens along on its own high spirits...
Stott's answers do not turn out to be edifying or particularly helpful. They boil down to a few obvious and obviously simplistic statements, distinguishing between "factual" and "human" documents. The latter are those that "inform our feelings" and educate us about society in the only "authentic" possible way. Stott could have used his introductory chapters more fruitfully by examining the social pressures and political concerns and attachments that influenced the work he goes on to chronicle. As it is, we hardly know at times where Stott's appraisals end and the thirties' self-appraisals begin...