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Word: characterized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyway, Hieronymous, the main character, is a movie star, writer, and every other kind of icon, who, at the beginning of the movie and sporadically throughout, is shown unreeling the rushes of a film autobiography (by chapters) in front of his grandmother and children. He is forty while this is...

Author: By Thomas M. Caplan, | Title: B-School Boy Meets 'Virgin Sex' | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

For that matter, there is not enough of her in the film. Once or twice I got the feeling they had pro-rated her across the hour and forty-seven minutes. She could have been a great character because many people right now are looking for something like her. But...

Author: By Thomas M. Caplan, | Title: B-School Boy Meets 'Virgin Sex' | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

THESE skeletons, the stuff of thirties dramas and fifties movies, are not the first time installed in the flesh of a Harvard play. Others with similar concerns have for all their efforts wrought neither more nor less than soap opera. But Mr. Bloch knows how to put dialogue together, not...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Good At It | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

It remains to acknowledge that several competent performances are not sufficient to turn this craftsmanlike play into a craftsmanlike production. One suspects Marcy Schuck of being a versatile actress when she appears first as Libby, the roommate, and the suspicion is confirmed when she returns as Mrs. Fern, the mother...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Good At It | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

While Band is about (in the words of one character) "six tired screaming fairy queens and one anxious queer" at a birthday party, the play neither apologizes for the homosexual nor preaches about his plight in an heterosexual world. Rather, playwright Crowley sucks us into a grimly realistic slice of...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Boys in the Band | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

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