Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bernard, research scholar Honoras Causa at Pennsylvania State University, said "Fidelity is no longer conceived of as intrinsic to marriage," adding, "there are positive aspects to extra-marital relationships." Unlike marriage in the past, Bernard added, "We now live in a society in which relationships have no intrinsic value except to provide growth for the individuals involved...
...experiences and razors and warm water. That's six hours, count 'em, and at that rate I could have made it back to Cambridge, although I have no idea why anyone would want to return to school early. Nothing in New Jersey is worth six hours of bus travel. Except maybe the Meadowlands Raceway...
Brooks freaks who love to see people farting or punching out horses and those who expect outrageously funny dialogue will be equally disappointed by High Anxiety. The movie, dedicated to Alfred Hitchcock and filled with little imitations of the master, just isn't very funny, except in a few spots. Once again, the film is a Brooks extravaganza--he wrote, produced, directed, starred and out-did himself this by writing the words and music to the title song. You'll never guess who sings...
...gone too far in the other direction; his own characterization provides an apt example. Thorndike, as played by Brooks, is a very serious gent, with all the dignity that befits a Harvard faculty member (tenured, of course) and a Nobel laureate. Thorndike radiates a sort of nervous rationality, except during his seizures of High Anxiety, so most of his good lines seem like deadpanned straight lines. Only once is Brooks himself very funny--in a scene with Kahn in which they dress and speak like an old Yiddishe couple in order to get past security cops at an airport-"Vattaya...
...central character, Freed, is enigmatic to a fault. McIntyre expresses nearly every emotion except pure elation by contorting his face as he exhales his cigarette smoke. To exhibit elation he does not exhale the smoke at all. Only by careful attention to this detail can one discern any emotion in the man's character...