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Shaky Totem. What is best in this movie version is Ken Russell's attempt to comment upon and satirize a culture where a shaky totem like Tommy could attract such worshipful respect. Tommy shares with traditional operas a foolish libretto, this one having to do with a deaf, dumb and blind boy who becomes a pinball champion, a culture hero and a new messiah. Townshend wavered crazily between satire, science fiction and sanctimony; Russell mocks the very seriousness of the piece itself by focusing on, then extending it. The movie is entirely sung; there is no dialogue. But there...
Gena Rowlands, who is Cassavetes's wife, dominates this uneven film. Her insanity really is a manifold personality: she moves from spasms of manic nervousness to chastened, hurt-animal despair, her foolish smiles rapidly become agonized searchings for approval. The director's over-long focuses on individual actors and his willingness to let them improvise, which made Husbands so tedious, here allows Rowlands at least to show everything she can do. Despite the prodigious exposure, she can't be gotten used to the way, say Susannah York could, in her portrait of madness in Images...
Mike Griffin then hit on a long jumper, and stole a foolish Brown pass under his own basket. After bringing the ball up-court, he spotted Carey free to the left of the foul circle, Swish. Brown 77, Harvard 75, Thirty-five seconds remained...
Sanders and squad hope to curb the Bulldogs. "We'd be foolish to look beyond Yale," said Sanders. "We are a definite contender, and we're just waiting for the bomb to explode. I hope it's this weekend...
...During his vicepresidential confirmation hearings 40 years later, why did Rockefeller reportedly say it would be foolish to regard his family as excessively wealthy...