Word: downrightness
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...outsider observing Bicker finds it difficult to take the whole thing seriously. The enormous anxieties generated in every member of the sophomore class, the superficiality and downright silliness of its standards and ceremonies, the blatant injustices of the values and principles the system inculcates--all would seem ludicrous in any civilized community, but they are doubly comic when set in one of the nation's greatest universities and practices by what is supposed to be a substantial segment of this generation's intellectual elite...
...base error and when Engineer first baseman Carl Nowiszewski dropped Bujarski's relay, allowing Weller to get to third, and Lyman to score. And when shortstop Chuck Souter deposited Brad Bauer's tapper somewhere beind first base coach Danny Skaff to bring home Weller. Noll began feeling downright sorry for himself. So sorry that after Bauer stole second, he threw a wild pitch...
...these, and Lapotaire never lets us forget it. The play unfolds through sketchy vignettes, some of which are disconcerting, such as the ones that have Marcel Cerdan, the French middleweight champion and Piaf's love of loves, being played by a black, and a Marlene Dietrich who is downright frumpy. A medal of merit should be struck for Zoë Wanamaker; as the prostitute pal of Piaf's who later achieves smug respectability, she is a perfect foil for Lapotaire, and their scenes together are wickedly droll...
While the economic year ahead looks generally gloomy, the year now closing has been downright schizophrenic. From January through December, the nation's business indicators gyrated as though they were suffering from a case of St. Vitus's dance. Gold and stock markets soared and tumbled with regularity. Interest rates bounced wildly up and down...
...basement in search of material. Flash Gordon, which expensive but unpretentious, works; Popeye, which reflects the critical and sociological chat about comics in recent years, does not. Indeed, it is one of the most grievously miscalculated movies in recent memory, claustrophobic in manner, mean in spirit, downright grotesque to look...