Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even with my attacking instincts, and my ability to upset my opponents by clever psychological tricks (my favorite was to say "that stinks!" every time they made a move) I began to drop behind the other prodigies on the block. While they were plumbing the mystical depths of Reti's opening, I still thought the Sicilian Defense exotic. And my parents were no help--never providing a proper home environment for chess study...
...film to suit his visual whim. A revolving chandelier is the most striking feature in a murder scene. Other important scenes center around pointed references to great films of the past. At other times Bertolucci emphasizes gimmicks of sound and shadow. Many, perhaps most, of the tricks are clever, even bold, but they rarely contribute to the film in any useful...
Surrealism in this film is no gratuitous exercise, but a way of probing into the distoritions of mind wrought in a small boy's head by an uncontrollable world of misery. Bunuel has mellowed since he made this film: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, a clever comedy he made a year and a half ago, uses the same surreal imagery, but in a less direct way. That film was popular, witty, adroit; Los Olvidados is driving, frightening--caustic and political. People who thought The Discreet Charm was amusing, but who couldn't quite see where Bunuel was going, should...
Most importantly, Henry takes on a life of his own; there are no strings attached here--Gardner stays out of the novel's development. Gardner's style is unhurried, deliberate. He's trying to set out the world as it is, with no clever embellishments, no god-like interference...
...McClinton is an extremely clever performer. Most of his act consists of imitations of other country singers and of a few who aren't country. And he knows how to talk to an audience. He told stories about how his brother done his wife wrong by staying too late in the Four-way Grill in Memphis and calling home and telling her he was working late, and she walked out on him taking all the furniture. He did his version of Conway Twitty, and damn if two blondes, with piled-up hair-dos like you see at Wallace rallies, didn...