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...been aimed at the subconscious, and the audience often finds itself laughing in spite of itself. Events move so quickly that control becomes impossible. Halfway through you will either be so thoroughly reconditioned that anything, 'no matter how perverted, will seem funny, or you will find the film a horrid bore. But the very fact that new kinds of responses are required to fully enjoy Pussycat, ranging from vicarious indulgence to an informed recognition of the parodies, indicates that Pussycat is a new breed of film...

Author: By Daniel J. Singal, | Title: What's New, Pussycat? | 7/22/1965 | See Source »

...fight I had fervently hoped that no matter who won--even if my quarter on Liston in the fifth in the CRIMSON pool went down the drain--the fight would be freed of the taint of the Miami affair. What happened last was worse than anyone's most horrid dreams. Somehow, the whole thing seemed too blatantly fallacious to have been a fix unless Sonny, Casslus, and Blinky Palermo have been watching too many Grade D fight films on the late show...

Author: By R.andrew Beyer, | Title: It Must Have Been the Will of Allah | 5/26/1965 | See Source »

...University first learns of proposal to build underpasses at Boylston St., River St., and Western Ave. John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, reacts with "pure, horrid gloom" when told that one of the access roads to the Boylston St. underpass might come very close to the corner of his House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERPASSES: A CHRONOLOGY | 10/3/1964 | See Source »

...London's once celebrated Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals (others: John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, and Bell's sister-in-law Virginia Woolf), a vociferous champion of such post impressionists as Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin in the early 1900s when other Britons thought them horrid; of cancer; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 2, 1964 | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

Next, Billy embroils himself in simultaneous engagements with two horrid girls who hold no appeal for him. Prissy Barbara, a vacuous townie whose jaw drops when he puts his hand on her knee, and Rita, a shrew with large breasts and a gelding tongue, are constantly on the point of finding Billy out. Hopping in frantic secrecy between these charmers keeps his nights occupied--but offers no more satisfaction than his job, or bumbling duplicities...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Billy Liar | 2/19/1964 | See Source »

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