Word: gorgeousity
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...looked up your doll Akiko-man is she terrific. She finally admitted (next morning, haha) that she hasn't got another boyfriend. Those wild letters are turned out by a fantastic guy named Tokuji Sugaya in a love-letter shop in swinging old Shibuya who lets these gorgeous chicks talk for a while and then he sits down and writes notes to about ten or 20 G.I.s a day. He charges 300 yen a letter, and the clients are just the best I've ever seen...
...hope and history." To H. L. Mencken, it was "vulgar, ugly, stupid, tedious, hard upon both the higher cerebral centers and the gluteus maximus. And yet there suddenly comes a show so gaudy and hilarious, so melodramatic and obscene, so unimaginably exhilarating and preposterous that one lives a gorgeous year in an hour...
...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...