Word: deared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...form letter to the 13 freshmen, Dwight D. Miller, the North Yard's Senior Advisor, stated: "Dear ---: I am sorry you have to return from vacation to the inconvenience and mess resulting from the water damage via burst pipes in your room. It will be a week or more before the damage can be repaired, so consequently it will be necessary for you to room temporarily...
...Dear Mr. Rozelle...
...late 19th century, Anton Chekhov raised the nuance to an art form. The technique moved one of his contemporaries to complain to him of The Sea Gull: "My dear fellow, it isn't dramatic." The paralyzing problem with this film version of Chekhov's first major play is that it is far too dramatic...
...advertising blurbs attest, The Lion in Winter has found great popularity in certain circles--the Ladies Home Journal calls it "The smash success." They must have found the film comforting, because it seems to show that even in the twelfth century Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine held Dear Abby attitudes. "I want the Aquitaine for John!" "I want it for Richard!" Nyaahnyaah. Like a medieval collection of Games People Play, but they play them so fast we lose track. Back and forth, one by one every character confronts every other and asks point-blank "Why didn't you love...
James Goldman, who adapted the screenplay from his own fairly successful Broadway script, must've had it in for Katharine Hepburn. She's forced through lines like "Of course he has a knife, we all have knives. It's 1183--we're barbarians." "Hush dear, mother's fighting." She makes it through such embarrassments by playing Katharine Hepburn, adding her wry little smile to some lines ("Well, what family doesn't have its ups and downs?") and telegraphing strong emotion by quivering...