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Word: conceit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only moment in the film that one feels comes from the hearts of Director Resnais and Writer Mercer, whose distrust of the spontaneous is woven into every tedious frame of this stupefying work. Calculation is their bag, and they have calculated the life right out of a conceit that clearly was not much to begin with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Night Thoughts | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

...absurdly funny things in Mel Brooks' The Producers (1968) was the notion of a musical comedy called Springtime for Hitler. Now that conceit begins to look prophetic. In All This and World War II, viewers are invited in effect to sing along with the blitzkrieg, follow the bouncing ball to Yalta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Battle Song | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...Like a science fiction, double feature" hybridized with every rock and roll conceit known to auditory massage-lovers this show is so tasteless as to approach classicism. Brad and Janet recall their romance: "Here's a ring to prove that I'm no joker (Brad...

Author: By Dianna R. Lange, | Title: 'Flash Gordon Was There In Silver Underwear' | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...story is achingly familiar, and though Stallone has a certain power, he is certainly not the subtlest actor to crawl out from under Marlon's overcoat. But the picture goes most wrong in the conceit it employs to lift Rocky out of the clubs and into the big arena for his title challenge. An Ali-like champion (Carl Weathers) blows into town for a championship bout and must find a replacement for the suddenly injured contender. Rocky asks the audience to believe that the champ reaches down past all the ranked boxers and all the up-and-coming kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Contender | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...exactly what it should be: grossly indelicate, boozily funny, unstoppable as a belch or a rush of sack to the kidneys. To say that it goes on being boozy and indelicate too long is to say, no doubt, that it is Falstaffian. The author's conceit is that Falstaff is now in his 80s. Busily dictating his memoirs, he passes on to a series of horrified clerks his digestive uproars, his sexual fantasies about his pubescent niece and his rages at his cook Macbeth ("Macbeth has murdered sleep, and my digestion"). Falstaff acknowledges that there was a report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Babble of Green Fields | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

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