Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Restic, though, keeping in character, remains overtly concerned. Key personnel lack experience, the starting line-up will not be finalized--on paper if not in Restic's head--until this afternoon and Columbia or no Columbia, this is still the first game. Last week was 44 weeks ago.
If Soap had other comic concerns besides sex, its nastiness wouldn't be so pervasive. Unfortunately, Harris has none of Norman Lear's redeeming flair for witty social satire-unless one counts the tired reverse-racist jokes she lavishes on the character of a sassy black butler (Robert...
Every now and then, however, a sports movie comes along that tries to grapple with some issue facing the sporting world besides the stacked-I formation or the intricacies of swatting a slider. One on One, currently packing them in at movie theaters all over America, makes a decent stab...
For The Consul's File, the author returns to Malaysia where, among other things, he attempts to bury a romantic genre made popular by W. Somerset Maugham. Theroux has small patience for old Willie. Nailing one aging expatriate who spent most of his life drinking at the local white...
Through his "moderate and dependable" narrator, Theroux produces a complex batik of exotic impressions and cool, clear perceptions. If his book is an appropriate souvenir rather than an imposing artifact, it is perhaps because the author no longer shares those beliefs and urgencies that once dramatized the expatriate novel. Theroux...