Word: conly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...films are argument enough for his place in movie history. With My Last Sigh, Buñuel allows himself to be seen in another light: as that most engaging of con artists, the raconteur. Reading the memoir is like spending a long, lazy afternoon in his presence. His voice never rises above a murmur. A small smile engages his face as he recalls some long-ago provocation that today scandalizes no one. Now and then he dozes. On one such afternoon this summer, Buñuel nodded off into immortality...
...There is the hot prospect (Patrick Cassidy) who is a terror in the outfield and a bed wetter at home. And the hick pitcher (Barry Tubbs) who appears to get height sickness when he climbs the pitcher's mound. And Rocky, the brawny third baseman (Ken Olin), a con man in pinstripes who hankers to croon the national anthem to a salsa beat. And an aging slugger (Bernie Casey) awarded a "previously owned" pimpmobile on his appreciation day. And, of course, the curmudgeonly owner, played by Pat Corley, the scowling coroner from Hill Street, who describes his team...
...forums, which have been held in different parts of the city once a week for the past month, allow representatives of pro and con groups to speak on the referendum and allow citizens to ask them questions. The most recent forum included panelists from the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, the Committee Against Research Bans (CARB), the Bay State Center for Economic Conversion. Mobilization for Survival, and the council for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze...
...been beaten out in the high earnestness sweepstakes. Meyer concedes his movie "has a minimum of imagination" but thinks Dr. Strangelove is "distilled through comedy," which presumably means that his own enterprise, being so conspicuously short of humor, serves some loftier social purpose. This type of cultural con is a piece of undiluted show-biz self-protection, and a good thing too. Political immediacy is just about all The Day After has going for it. By any standards other than social, it is a terrible movie...
...York police last night arrested a young con artist whose year-long trail of deception took him through a string of Harvard dormitories and who apparently secured over night visits at several Manhattan apartments by posing as a Harvard student...