Word: highbrowed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Paper Chase (Sept. 9, CBS, 8 p.m.). All summer CBS has been touting The Paper Chase as its classiest new program. One can see why. Well acted and produced, this series has a highbrow setting (a law school), a prestigious star (John Houseman) and harpsichord music on the soundtrack. As if all this were not proof enough of culture, the first episode contains not one but two 25? words: "contradistinction" and "propitious." PBS would kill to have a show like this...
Schwaighofer's faction has announced a boycott, which could deprive the play of skilled personnel. Both sides fear a decline in attendance, which totaled 530,000 in 1970. The traditionalists argue that the 1750 version is too highbrow and stylized. Schwaighofer's group, however, is concerned that Jews may organize an international boycott and other protests when the show goes...
...this convention--they make up five of the nine members of the Nevada delegation. Soon, it becomes apparent that this is representative of much of the convention--a gathering of family and friends active in this sort of thing since the Wallace crusade of 1968 and resentful of highbrow outsiders from the aborted Reagan campaign...
...adventure and a struggle to regain an inheritance without characterization. And you can't make a picaresque film with next to no action. Very little happens in Barry Lyndon. Kubrick's success in 2001 seems to have convinced him that playing the camera lovingly over a tableaux while playing highbrow music on the soundtrack is a substitute for thought and action. Kubrick's sets are at first startling--the lush green beauty of Irish hills and loughs; the crazy-quilt pattern of farmland in the Low Countries; the grounds of an eighteenth-century country house; the glittering interiors...
...what more can I say?--I was a victim of my elitist preconceptions. There I was all winter, reviewing highbrow good-but-not-great movies like Amarcord, Stavisky, Murder on the Orient Express and Godfather II, while all the time a real masterpiece was playing in Danvers. And I would have missed it, too, if it hadn't been for the way the Liberty Tree Mall beckoned out of the mist. As it was, I loved The Towering Inferno and didn't have to dig very deep into my satchel of critical responses to discover...