Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Varda's film is not as harmless as her lyrics. It is upsetting because it can and is being taken seriously. Those who have eagerly awaited a so-called "feminist film" are jumping on Varda's bandwagon, pushing her on to popular success. When Varda's silly women start being called "symbols" they aren't so funny any more...
...long run it might not matter. Certainly, few people remember much about the plot of Oklahoma or The King and I; maybe the songs are all that matter after all. In that case, Gars and Goyles is a good bet, at least for an evening's worth of harmless fun. It all depends on what you're looking for: Ya pays yer money, as the hucksters say, and ya takes yer choice...
...thing: the press has not been able to hurt him as badly as most people thought. Whatever the merits of the Globe report, he managed to neutralize its impact with a strategically timed resignation, letting columnists on both side of the issue keep his name in the spotlight with harmless but well-read arguments about innocence or guilt...
...magazine would be harmless, indeed dull, if its collection of photo-journalistic essays did not purport to be art. First of all, as in every issue, there are full-page photographs of children of the famous. This month Elizabeth Taylor's 16-year-old daughter Maria Burton and 22-year-old son Christopher Wilding grace pages six and seven. They were photographed by Firooz Zahedi, with whom young Christopher plans to open a photography studio soon in New York. Both of Taylor's children are good-looking, both seem deliberately posed to provoke comparison with Beautiful Mama, yet neither...
Snapping photos of the folks in the old homestead for a family album is harmless enough, unless your names happen to be Annette and Jeff Carter and the homestead is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The President's son and daughter-in-law had big plans for marketing their pictures in a book, and hoped for a foreword by Jimmy. They even had a prospectus put together for publishers and included some sample snaps: Amy on Daddy's knee, Miss Lillian out fishing, Rosalynn on the tennis court, Jimmy in a hospital gown after the birth of a grandchild. Then...