Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In A Little Romance, Olivier has another crusty character role: a suave old coot of a Frenchman who plays fairy godfather to a pair of star-crossed lovers who are just 13. He is in delightful fettle and creates one classic bit, a gasping fit while reading a newspaper. Yet...
Romance plays five times better than it sounds, thanks to a genuinely funny script, gorgeous locations, fine acting and direction that never wallows in sentiment. As Hill demonstrated in his similar and wonderful The World of Henry Orient (1964), he understands smart young people and knows how to cast them...
Mr. President, unlike my colleagues from Afro-American Studies, I plan to be here for the next 35 or 36 years, if I survive through the half-life period, so I feel I have a special stake in Harvard's posture on this issue. Now, let me refer to something...
Mr. President, it seems to me that in this debate, at least among those who have declared themselves to be in general agreement on the question of the singularity of South African repression, that there is one lesson that overrides all the others, which is the lesson of powerlessness. I...
Judy Bass as the Acid Queen suffers from an overdose of Tina Turner. Turner's Queen was full throated and nasty: she enjoyed her work and took no pains to hide that fact. Bass lacks the stage presence to carry it off, and in striving after open evil loses the...