Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half-hour is more ideologically right-minded than dramatically convincing. Mazursky never has figured out how to wrap up his movies. Yet along the way his script offers one moment of recognition after another. Some of the funniest occur when Erica and her female friends get together for in formal consciousness-raising sessions that are accurately described as "part Mary Hartman, part Ingmar Bergman." Mazursky has also written some moving scenes for Erica and her 15-year-old daughter (Lisa Lucas); he understands painfully well the bottomless angers and conflicting loyalties that divorce creates among both adults and children...
...fairly simple plot--had Lipsky not chosen to interrupt the flow of the narrative with digressions and, in one case, an audience sing-along in the especially feeble Act I. At times Lipsky contrasts very well for comic effect the modern simplicity of Saul's words with the more formal diction of the other characters. For example, in the middle of a long tirade by Samuel, Saul interjects, "You know, you're a very gloomy person." But after a while, the wide-eyed stuff gets a bit grating...
...conference, wrote a letter accusing Küng of evading a binding creed, and demanding in exasperation: "Is Jesus Christ the preexisting, eternal Son of God, one in being with the Father?" Because Küng continued to provide no flat answer, the hierarchy last November issued a formal warning that the book created a "distressing insecurity of faith" and charged that Küng had failed to explain how his Christology could be reconciled with the historic creeds...
...fans may feel comfortable together at their conventions, but their odd interests often separate them into small groups. One of the more unusual of these groups is made up of aficionados of Georgette Heyer, an author of 19th century novels of manners. This group held a formal dance at Boskone; another group, the Society for Creative Anachronism, regularly holds jousts and tourneys in full medieval battle dress. The conventions attract devotees of horror movies, computers, historical and military games, comic books, and even puns. For the latter, Boskone included a special pun competition...
This week, however, Dapper Dan's colleagues on the House ethics committee will begin a formal investigation into charges that he has been feathering his own nest as well as his district. Committee staffers and the Justice Department are scrutinizing Flood's activities in these areas...