Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of the hope lies in the acting, which individually is quite nice. Best of all is Elizabeth Brunton as Nancy, the Midlands girl whose search for a London YWCA brings her into the flat of Colin, Tolen, and Tom. Miss Brunton is charming in her extended bits of nonsense, particularly the first part of the "rape" sequence that dominates the third...
...second quarter, Harvard went flat. Playing lazy ball for the rest of the half, the Crimson was outshot by the hard-running Green whose accurate long shots sent them ahead...
...Broadway for more than two years shines again in this flawed but still funny screen adaptation. Heading for divorce, Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) is a casualty of the war between the sexes. The same calamity befell his old pal Oscar, an alimony-poor sportswriter with a rambling eight-room flat on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Out of pity and penury, he invites Felix to share his lair. At this point Simon pulls the switch that brightens the screen: the partnership becomes a parody of a failing marriage. Oscar is the kind of host who offers his card-playing buddies...
...this collection of short stories says: "I can't tolerate any more of my sophistries about spirit, mind, and breath. Body equals being, and if your weight goes down, you are the less." Coming from a man who makes his living teaching philosophy at Purdue University, such a flat-out assertion seems a little unusual. But then William James pledged in his diary to "care little for speculation; much for the form of my action...
...stripped-down flat, a cell of Maoist incendiaries gather to plan the decline and fall of practically everybody. The short-wave radio blares a ceaseless stream of news from Radio Peking; quotes from the Chairman are read with the stentorian zeal of the newly converted; lectures propound dialectical doublethink ("A revolutionary party carries out a policy whenever it takes an action. If it's not a correct policy, it's a wrong...