Word: bunched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credible manner. Rather than utilize the device of ribald humor to jibe at the mores and habits of the time, Wakefield has written a book lacking in wit and devoid of genuine style. As for evoking the mood of the period, his effort to throw in a bunch of song snippets, stereotypical characters, and references to Vietnam falls well short of the mark...
Young said he established communication with the street people by reading them poems. "They were a fairly intelligent bunch of runaways," he says. "We got them to wash and not to cook openly in the building." Anyway, they played by the rules. But one day, Young got a call from the Cambridge police telling him to look out his window. Flames were leaping from the hall. The building was soon a charred shell...
...Berrigan and Drinan, or sometimes bureaucratic, like Father Hesburgh of Notre Dame--are, in fact, the bane of Ignatius's existence. (They are the bane of most Catholics' existence, because they usually adopt a lofty air that implies they are somehow privy to the wisdom of Creation and a bunch of other theological secrets the rest of us are, quite literally, dying to be let in one. But Ignatius is especially sensitive to the "brilliant Jesuit" mystique, probably because the Jesuits aren't interested in Math teachers with extraordinary punting ability). "Harvard," I pressed on, bearing in as his defenses...
...what did you want to go and do that for? What do they teach you there? I hear it's all a bunch of rich boobs runnin' around goin' to parties and gettin' drunk all the time. Are you all Irish?" And then the bone-cruncher: "When was the last time you went to Mass...
...such performances as those, Between the Lines manages something that is much rarer and more difficult than it sounds. In a movie season populated by psychopaths, killers, sexual cripples and supernatural spirits, it enables you to spend a couple of hours in the company of a believable, thoroughly likable bunch of people. Christopher Porterfield