Word: distractive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of years ago - detach the Nazis from the historical wickedness that their kind committed and that we do well to bear in mind, and make them into faintly risible characters, just a step or two away from Mel Brooks creations. No amount of fancy framing can finally distract us from this unfortunate and diminuating effect...
With a bit more wit, the production might have been able to distract the audience from some of its narrative in congruities; that's what Colin Higgins did for much of the time in his not dissimilar Foul Play. But Screenwriter Reginald Rose, best known for TV's Twelve Angry Men and The Defenders, is not Mr. Light Touch. The film's only flair comes from Director Lamont Johnson, who tries to force-feed sophistication into the proceedings. Johnson has shot the film at a fast pace in romantic Manhattan locations, and he has recruited outstanding stage...
...there is a briskness of pace and enough mild wit to hold one's attention. By the end one is rather surprised at how high the pile of corpses is, which means that sufficient style was present to serve its traditional function in the puzzle mystery - distract us from the gore that of necessity lies at the center of this form. Which is a way of saying that they must have been doing something right here. Too bad they couldn't have gone just a little bit further - from the entertaining to the entrancing...
...celluloid diary of Susan's life as a young woman in New York. It's true to the city, and offers some well executed cameo roles of gallery owners and Soho artistes, but it's just pleasant viewing after a while. The layers of supporting characters and incidental situations distract whatever attention the friendship might have drawn...
...news that Harvard plans to establish a program of graduate studies for black South Africans is welcome. But such a policy should not distract us from the more fundamental issues that students brought up last year...