Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...portrait in Orson Welles-like pomposity and does some hoofing to match the skinny master himself. Somehow Charisse managed to write a three-minute "classical" dance number into her contract, and in the middle of the shuffling it seems out of sync. But the rest just hops. In two clever parts dreamed up by screenwriters Comden and Green, Oscar Levant and Nannette Fabray star as two writers who carry on like--who else? Comden and Green...
...gameness of gamins. Settling into the day-to-day routine of a comfortable French provincial town, Truffaut introduces us, through loosely coordinated vignettes, to all the little grade school tykes and all their mischievous goings-on. This stuff could have become soupy, but Truffaut has retained a clever rascal's nose for stage-stealing devilry. (One example: the town detective's daughter refused to accompany her parents to a restaurant without a mangy toy elephant. But when they leave her at home, she pleads abuse to the neighbors, who fall for it and prepare her a special gourmet care package...
...word or a number slipped in among patches of color, or a form that distinctly resembles a human being. These touches are somehow reassuring to those who prefer traditional portrait and landscape art; Davis uses the reassurance to persuade viewers to move further into his art and enjoy the clever play of lines and shapes without worrying about what it all "means" or whether or not it is "good...
...Nelson rode the ball deep into the B.C. zone and fired over to Martin on the left side of the crease. Martin was one-on-one with the goalie, but held his shot long enough to draw the Eagle netminder over. By this time all eyes were on the clever senior as he whistled the ball over to Faught for the open-net quickstick...
...lovers here are David Koerner, a clever, successful, 42-year-old TV producer, and Elizabeth Adderley, a formidably bright and attractive woman whose occupation until recently was wife and keeper to a wealthy drunk. David and Elizabeth are old friends, but when they meet for the first time as free-floating singles, each is edgy and hesitant. Before long the reader sees an additional advantage to the subject of divorce and the curious second adolescence that follows a marital split. For American society in most of its aspects is too fluid and amorphous to sustain a comedy of manners (since...