Word: demi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past work and most other recent comedy is its general believability. His central figures and all who cross their paths are recognizable contemporary types. Most of us have even shared a lot of their fantasies. Their world, however cockeyed, is our world. Without abandoning the private demi-demons that have been the basis of his past comic success, Allen has fashioned broad new connections with his audience. Ironically, his most personal film may turn out to have the widest appeal of all his movies. Richard Schickel...
Hali was written in 1950 by G.V. Desani in India. The drama is set in ancient India, and centers around a sort of demi-god, Hali(Steve Bonsey). The play is derived from a novel, but the tale is not unravelled through dialogue and conventional blocking. Rather, Hali tells his story to the audience with the help of a narrator, and as he talks dancers and players sweep onto the stage and act out many of the adventures around him and with him. The music consists of nothing but a very primitive recorder and a drum, but along with...
...suddenly in need of someone to sign his scripts for him, cash his checks and show up at rehearsals pretending he wrote the thing. The friend is gifted, the network execs are pleased, and Allen (who takes a percentage for his services) soon finds himself prospering and enjoying his demi-celebrity. But, of course, a tweed jacket and a book-lined pad do not an author make. The Front's best comic moments occur as Allen, whose character is just barely literate, tries to act the role of author. His worst moment (and one of the film...
Seventeenth century England was much taken by Sir Walter Raleigh's description of an American demi-Eden where it was forever either spring or summer. This balmy land of the blest, he said, lay on the 35th parallel of north latitude-in present-day North Carolina. Rallying to Raleigh, for whom North Carolina named its capital, Southerners have ever since believed in their hearts that their region is kindlier, lovelier and more conducive to the good life than any other patch of earth this side of paradise, and not without reason...
...party was expected to kick off about 5 p.m., but one-half hour and 45 demi-tuna fish sandwiches later, the great trumpeter still hadn't shown up. Pretty soon President Bok began to lose patience with the avant-grade jazz movement...