Word: fondest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bailed out Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, and marveled at the exotic headpiece that disguised Greta Garbo in Mata Hari. When she got to the cane Mae West leaned on in films like She Done Him Wrong, Mrs. Vreeland briskly struck down one of Hollywood's fondest delusions. "Mae had quite a small bust, you know; it was all done with corsets...
...fondest hope of many a Warren Court critic has been that the Burger Court would overturn the 1966 Miranda decision. That momentous piece of "strict construction" requires police to inform suspects of their rights to silence, to a lawyer-and to free counsel if they are indigent; it also bars the use in court of any statement obtained without a reminder of those rights. But instead of reversing Miranda outright, the new majority has opted for trimming, undercutting or blunting its reach...
...Good Old Days (about a month ago) the place offered a very cheap beer and weak mixed drinks (45 and 75 cents respectively) and free salted peanuts in copious quantities. Since then, they have jacked up the prices, discontinued the peanuts, and added free music. Since my fondest memories of the place involve hearing drunken friends recite "The boy stood on the burning deck, eating peanuts by the peck. . .," I don't like any of the changes. It is too expensive to get drunk, there is no occasion to recite Peanuts by the Peck, and if there were the band...
Their only hope lies in alcoholic pipe-dreams. Their fondest desire is a visit from Hickey, a gladhanding traveling salesman who conjures inexplicable laughter out of the barflies' brimming cups with the tale of how his lonely wife is finding sexual solace with an iceman...
There are also some excellent performances, especially by Cortèse and Baye, and Truffaut's style flows easily. Day for Night has grace, wit and affection enough to be one of the fondest compliments the movies have ever been paid-a tribute to all the dream spinners by one of the best...