Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard left at least one man on base in every inning except the first...
...said Leo Tolstoy in 1908, when he was 80, peering into the future of an infant art. He might have altered his opinion had he seen this Russian adaptation of his masterwork, War and Peace. It has escaped greatness, except in cost and length. The film took $100 million and five years to make. After extensive cutting it is now six hours and twelve minutes long. In the Soviet Union it was released in four different segments; in the U.S., audiences must see it at two separate showings...
...Couple is not quite the near-perfect comedy it could have been. Except for a handful of outdoor shots, Director Gene Saks has followed the original Mike Nichols staging with slavish and unimaginative fidelity. Time after time, the camera remains static while the dialogue is left to fend for itself. Although he is one of Hollywood's most polished performers, Lemmon too often strains to achieve the lines of tension that characterized Art Carney's high-strung stage interpretation of the role...
...like his own times, or predicament. He lived alone except for a red setter bitch. He corresponded hugely with his Cambridge friends, but when they visited him friendship sometimes went sour. He had at least two heterosexual love affairs, but these were unhappy failures. After such disappointments, he would learn something new-cinematography, or how to fly an airplane. He drank too much...
Patriotic Piety. Case histories explain everything except cases, and genius. White had always written. At first he turned out light, brittle novels (signed "James Aston" to protect his teaching job), then a successful paste-up from his hunting and fishing diaries. His biographer, who never met him, overstates his seeming ease of production; in her portrait, he is an amiable but absent-mirded fowl who every now and then discovers that he has produced an egg. At any rate, in 1938, at the age of 32, White produced The Sword in the Stone, an evocation of "the 12th century...