Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This monotonous effect is nowhere more apparent than in the constant banter about sex. In the crime novels sex talk is crude but excited. Attitudes toward sex reveal much about motivations. In A City on a Hill there is more talk, less feeling. The talk is almost exotic--about fat Tijuana whores and Chinese baskets and a house in Brighton where you wash off with PhisoHex to stave off V.D. The sex that actually happens (we hear about it through more talk) is uniform, innocuous. No one is tender, no one is embarrassed to talk about how wet somebody...
...Butley, of course, is a one-man show. That a day in the life of a lecturer at the University of London should be so successfully transformed into theater is not too surprising--like all good academic comedians. Butley is a showman, a constant performer, whose glory on the tenured stage lies in the absence of competition. Butley demands all for himself and when at the end of the play he has driven away all the other characters, including his wife and his young protege, only the audience is left to sustain him. In the course of a single...
...question that may never be settled is whether a reduction in supplies ? because of cutbacks in U.S. military aid ? fatally undermined ARVN's confidence. According to one line of argument, that same scarcity made it impossible for ARVN to continue the tactics learned from the U.S. ? constant harassment and interdiction of Communist troops to keep them off balance and to prevent them from massing in numbers capable of launching a coordinated, deadly offensive. Ceilings were placed on the number of shells that field guns and mortars could fire daily, and there was a severe cutback in helicopter...
...Bruins dominated the contest from the outset, and maintained constant pressure on Chicago goalie Tony Esposito throughout the game, outshooting the Black Hawks, 56-19. But Tony O, who had been atrocious in the two previous games in the series, came up with the big game stopping 52 of the Boston shots...
Beatty and director Hal Ashby have given us the merest outlines of their characters, whom we see whirl through a single day in their lives, fitting about in a timeless vacuum. Combined with the constant striving for absurd humor. This one-dimensionality results in a statement about as profound as a movie of the Marx Brothers let loose in a beauty parlor. We encounter characters as self-centered as the businessman in Paper Tiger, who sets his clothing warehouse on fire to receive insurance benefits, characters as scheming as the young entrepreneur in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, who ignores...