Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chorus, which appears on stage with annoying regularity to remind the leads of the power of memory. Nor is the Hugh Wheeler book, based on Ingmar Bergman's enchanting movie Smiles of a Summer's Night, in a class with Sondheim's score. But, in the end, the chief culprit is again Sanek's weak direction, which fails either to paint the frustrations of mismatched love or to create the mood of enchantment which resolves them. In the first case, we hear Fredrik singing while Anne mumbles to herself by her dressing table; in the second, a misplaced candelabra obscures...
...film version by Martha Vickers, who finally turns out to have murdered the missing Irishman and to have set off this story's complex web of blackmail and murder. That's the answer to the question, asked whenever this film is brought up, of who comes out as the culprit in the end. At least that's the answer in the book; whether it actually carried over into this screenplay is not at all clear. One of those great rumors has it that Faulkner, who was out in Hollywood taking his day in the sun touching up this script, could...
...people east of the Rockies choked, Californians were enjoying what was a welcome phenomenon for that parched state: rain fell for five days -the first substantial precipitation in eight weeks. At least temporarily, the culprit responsible for much of the nation's wild and freezing weather-the stationary high-pressure system off the California coast-had broken up. Its departure allowed westerly winds to carry clouds over the Rockies and dump long-overdue snow on barren slopes in Oregon, Wyoming and Colorado. California's refreshed farmers reveled in the rain, and mountain ski operators romped in the snow...
DESPITE THESE occasional stabs at humor, Dick and Jane ultimately fails because of its heavy-handedness. Fred Koenekamp's leaden photography is yet another culprit. Examining the division between black and white, his camera focuses on a group of dancing black employees in Charley's office, then roams to depict the slow, stinking affluence at an aerospace company party. The camera's eye, like the script, lacks subtlety. The film editing, too, obviously emphasizes the difference between rich and poor neighborhoods, by switching from Dick and Jane's ivory dream house to a dark pool hall frequented by the unemployed...
...suffering from a mediocre season, at least in contrast to previous years of championship-caliber teams; and as was the case last year, The Crimson has begun to do what the National Enquirer would do; look for scapegoats. Again the Harvard Band has been found as the number one culprit...