Word: float
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican presidential nominee advocated separating New York from the rest of the nation and allowing it to float out to sea. Instead of casting off the nation's greatest city, Mr. Simon now proposes to make a neat profit through its sale, with municipal residents and assets being thrown in, no doubt, to sweeten the sale...
...Orson Welles' Romance Festival chugs on and the bag is not consistently wonderful but rather. Has its Moments Two of them this weekend are unconditionally 100 per cent guaranteed to draw enough safety walter from an audience's ducts to float the U.S.S. Nimitz. Make Way for Tomorrow, Leo McCarey's 1937 surefire crier about an old, disowned couple is something of a can't lose proposition from the director's point of view. The performances though, are simply impeccable. There was a stock of oldish actors in Hollywood in the thirties that a studio could draw on to play...
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...YORKER is distinguished above all by plain good writing; but, more than that, especially in the "casuals" and "Talk pieces" that appear in the front of the magazine, the writing shows a distinctive humor, low-key and urbane, that seems to float effortlessly above all that is encumbered and earth-bound. "How easy I have found it," Gill writes, "to rush pell-mell through the world, playing the clown when the spirit of darkness has moved me, and colliding with good times at every turn." It's as if he has lived his life in New Yorker style, a life...
...there's a thin filmy gate between the dinner table and the battlefield. Which is fine and presented so pleasingly that the movie is worth it. But Bunuel is idiosyncratic as ever, and there are no Theones of history here. One misses his stories, his Tristanas, when life can float by all at once, the great old director filling in the details...