Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weld provides an unmemorable contrast to Keaton as Dunn's capricious older sister Katherine, relying too heavily on the character's caricaturish wackiness to carry her through the part. Richard Brooks' direction and adaption of Judith Rossner's best-selling novel is sufficiently slick to draw crowds to the box office, but the film can be filed as another victim of the typical superficiality of American movies. Sharp witticisms and flashy techniques keep the movie's pace upbeat, while Brooks neglects Dunn's broader significance as a prototypical single woman vainly coping with today's anything-goes morality. The movie...
...that doesn't mean much for the average Cantabrigian barfly. Most suds houses in the Square have about as much Celtic atmosphere as the locker room of the Polish national hockey room of the Polish national hockey team: no shamrocks on the walls, no Irish Rovers on the juke box, and a suspicious tendency to switch channels when the Irish Spring commercials come on the T.V. Maybe that says something about the Cambridge inebriate set, which apparently has no appreciation of the value of good talk and a friendly atmosphere in which to wither one's brain cells. Obviously...
...build a coalition on the national level, the conservatives would have to learn to compromise on issues-something that has always been difficult for them. Otherwise, the New Right would soon have the faded look of the old right-and just about as much appeal at the ballot box...
...other Western countries-who, in Vorster's words, "go so far as to claim one man, one vote for the whole of South Africa"; and 2) a new constitution, which would give some measure of self-rule to South Africa's "coloreds" and Asians (see box), while keeping essential authority in a white-ruled presidential Cabinet...
...ectomorphic Smiley, The Honourable Schoolboy resists shrinkage. Its events are febrile, its local color relentless and sometimes overlong. This often obscures suspense and the Le Carré trademark: a fine irony that smashes beautiful political theories with hard facts. That irony is apparent in the very word Circus (see box), center of British intelligence. Once a roiling three-ring operation, the place now resembles a shabby, peeling carnival depleted of funds and dignity...