Word: dotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...provide the reader with a sense of the danger of the inventor's headlong rush to "make it go." Clark quotes Edison when he decided to relocate his lab in New Jersey saying, "See that valley? Well, I'm going to make it more beautiful. I'm going to dot it with factories...
...title character's moment in the spotlight, but Nureyev's Valention remains a distant figure, a romantic anachronism bursting forth with panache and charisma and little else. Russell seems to persist in the belief that audiences enjoy having their senses assaulted and will consider it entertainment; grotesques and caricatures dot the screen in Valentino, evoking some of Fellini's lesser films. The ambience of the Twenties is effectively recaptured by the film, but Valentino never gets around to addressing the ethos that prevailed in the America of that fabled epoch. And judging by this performance, Michelle Phillips would do well...
...tile character's moment in the spotlight, but Nureyev's Valentino remains a distant figure, a romantic anachronism bursting forth with panache and charisma and little else. Russell seems to persist in the belief that audiences enjoy having their senses assaulted and will consider it entertainment; grotesques and caricatures dot the screen in "Valentino," evoking some of Fellini's lesser films. The ambience of the Twenties is effectively recaptured by the film, but "Valentino" never gets around to addressing the ethos that prevailed in the America of that fabled epoch. And judging by this performance, Michelle Phillips would do well...
Audiences begin cheering Annie Hall with the first scene, when Annie and Alvy meet after a tennis game (she wearing men's brown pants, an unpressed white shirt, a black vest, and a ridiculously long polka-dot tie, an outfit Diane might have found on the floor of her own closet). She starts to compliment him on his tennis, gets lost in one of her enchanted word-forests, then subsides into pretty embarrassment: "Oh, God, Annie ... Well, oh, well ..." And then the murmur of defeat: "La-de-dah, la-de-dah." Heartbreaking. Does anyone doubt that young women across...
...frightful red dot that will appear on these students' registration envelopes will force rerouting to the Term Bill Office and a fine of $10 if they cannot produce checks to cover the first installment of their term bills...