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Guidance officers at both schools said they usually send fewer than a halfdozen students to college in the U.S. every year, though Harvard is generally a top choice...
...also a safe bet that the sports bar will be packed for the other halfdozen or so Harvard games that will be on television year, as the Parma population will watch Cohagan's attempt to bring home a national title this season...
Ornstein noted the retirement of respected Republican New York representative, Barner B. Conable Jr., as an example of about a halfdozen senior House GOP members who are stepping down this year...
Jean proceeds to klutz his way through a halfdozen "should I or shouldn't I?" impasses with the pubescent Veronique. The poor guy obviously has a right to feel lonely; when he crudely but movingly divulges to Ann his haunting memories of first seeing his mother naked, she doesn't even lift the pen from her shopping list. But the actor, Michel Peyrelon, possesses the kind of jowly, hugemouthed face that turns even a wounded smile into a leer, and when he finally holds Veronique's passive head on his shoulder, patting her hair and closing his eyes, his emotional...
...disquiet that has nagged me through the last halfdozen of Bergman's films that I have seen becomes gratingly obvious in this one: his dialogue consists of monotonously pompous sermons and gratuitously unpleasant analyses of the characters within the film. Real people seldom talk to one another this way, principally because they don't have to gloss the weaknesses of a Bergman script with explications of its premises. This failing reaches an embarrassing crescendo in an unattractive scene with the girl's father and her husband tearing each other apart in order to say things Bergman couldn...