Word: drenchings
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...themselves with toilet paper, rice and toast in preparation for the bizarre ritual. When the film's crazy Dr. Frank-n-furter proposes a toast, the audience pelts the screen with--you got it--slices of toast. And when rain soaks movie characters Brad and Janet, audience members drench each other with water pistols...
...ever there was one Ernest Flatford, B-School student with a taste for sentiment and bad prose, is rudely awoken by colleague and rival (and, inexplicably, object of his desire), the ghastly Prudence Tomb (Martha Coffin). Rabid purveyor of the go rich-quick-after-B-School American Drench, Martha, ever the killjoy, nags at Ernest to do his reading between intermittent snatches of an idiotic love duet. Just as we begin to feel at home, the Devil appears once again, in a new guise, armed with a repertoire of tired Harvard Jokes, after enough references to "666" to exasperate even...
...impression of architectural form-a window or a door, a passage from inside to outside. A painting like Summer Open with Mediterranean Blue, 1974, creates a strikingly concise yet opulent impression of landscape by these pared means. The passages of tone in the paint, the variations of blue depth, drench the eye in sea light without offering a glimpse of horizon; it is as though a part of nature had been taken down to its barest essence-discarding the thing but leaving the nuances-and then contrasted with an equally reduced emblem of culture: three lines, the platonic ghost...
Doubtless. And perhaps if the film were made with real flak, one would feel like toying with its mystical precepts. But Director Wise cannot think of any way to stress the spooky except to drench scenes in rain, while Writer De Felitta cranks out undigested research. They are very tedious fellows...
Given this second life, Knapp threw goose eggs into the fifth, at which point, with the Judges having just assumed the lead, the rains came--not hard enough to call off the game, but hard enough to drench the field and everyone else who didn't have an umbrella...