Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their search for "truth," Hoffman and Gordon have come up with a new genre, a kind of cinéma mendicité that conveniently allows them to put a lot of gullible egomaniacs through their paces and exploit them at the same time. As might be expected from men of such scruples, the resultant film is tacky and insufferably condescending. It invites audiences to laugh at a pathetic, driven man, while the real clowns peek out from behind the cameras...
...novel does come fitfully to life, usually in some transitional scene where the author is forced to view the society in which her New Yorkers still move. A wedding is done well; so is a smoothed-over gaffe at a dinner party and an old ballerina with her beauty in ruins but her vanity intact. The suspicion grows during the slow passage through this glum volume that it is not rightfully a psychological novel, but a strayed social one. It moves repeatedly in that direction, and always the author drags it back. That is her privilege, of course. Still...
...Yale had trouble in the early part of the season," he says, "but they've come along fairly well since then and the performance they gave in the New Englands last weekend was quite surprising...
...Badgers, traditionally late starters because of the cold Wisconsin winters, have come along strong in the past weeks. They finished 3.2 seconds behind Harvard in the Sprints qualifying heat, and beat both Dartmouth (by 0.9 seconds) and M.I.T. (by 9.4 seconds) in the Cochrane Cup race earlier this season...
...Come see the return of Cal Hill and Brian Dowling to Soldiers Field on Saturday. In this Yale extravaganza, the tennis and lacrosse games start at 2 p.m. and the baseball 30 minutes later. Bring coupon #2 to Gate 2 of Soldiers Field. Boola boola...