Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dancers step back from such a premature synthesis in order to dissect again the whole in "A Day in the Light"--drums and light, gorgeous psychedelic slides, but no dancers; "Just the Same"--only music; and "Left, Right, Or Back and Forward"--for each piece is so carefully conceived and well executed it may stand confidently on its own as an artistic entity...
ELVIRA MADIGAN is not the most beautiful film ever made. It is not "perfect," or "absolutely gorgeous," or "exquisite," or any of the other things Bosley Crowther and his friends said about it. Director Bo Widerberg presents us with an unconvincing, confusing story fraught with technical flaws. In spots, he is brilliant. Single frames seem like French Impressionist paintings...
...enemy agents. When hiring new girls for his staff, Sebastian confronts them with questions like "How many words can you make from thorough!" And "What is Naitsabes spelled backward?" A Queeg in mufti, he compulsively fingers a rubber ball as he orders his overworked underlings to "switch your gorgeous minds to overdrive." From time to time, Sebastian mutters antiheroic cliches to himself, like "I'm a septic tank for the world's ugly secrets...
...script or direction allows them to demonstrate: Bancroft disappears altogether, and Hoffman is forced into too many blankfaced ambiguous close-ups. Katherine Ross's perfect pre-Raphaelite beauty overshadows her valiant attempt to create something from nothing, an attempt which almost succeeds (as if it matters whether anyone so gorgeous can act). The Graduate's best performance comes from Murray Hamilton as cuckolded Mr. Robinson, an all-too-tangential figure in the proceedings...
Harvard players had hopes of edging the Terriers for the first time in eight games, but not even the most optimistic fan dreamed the Crimson would humble the B.U. defense with eight gorgeous goals. Boston College on Saturday should prove as tough an opponent, and Cornell on the 18th could be even rougher; but last night's triumph changed the 1967-68 Harvard team from a dark horse to a front runner...