Word: innuendos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quintet uses this innuendo to protect their own parochial proposal for a Third World Cultural Center from my criticism, but this just won't protect it I'm afraid. It happens that it was in terms of the functions of parochial moorings that I characterized Harvard students who are linked to such moorings, through Newman Club, Hillel House, etc. And from this functional vantage point (not an inferior-superior vantage point as the quintet charges) I said that some students (maybe say 35 percent of Jewish students, 35 percent of Catholic students, 50 percent of Mormons, etc.) "trek Harvard...
...this scene, however, is atypical of the film. Most everything else, from cinematography to dialogue is heavy-handed. While the camera shows a full front view of all the action, the script is equally uninspired. Everything is straight exposition: the writers seem to have forgotten the value of innuendo. This lacks of subtlety engenders a lack of surprise and coarseness in the film. One emerges from the theater benumbed by the blatancy of the script and by the ordeal of having sat through what has seemed like a thousand hours of Solid Gold...
...consequent breakdowns, bears down on him untidily and at unexpected moments. He manages, struggling, to still his madness. He succeeds, periodically, in publishing some poetry. Out of all three volumes, there are some indications that one poem will endure. It is called, with a combination of confessional irony and innuendo, Coming Clean...
DESPITE FRANZ'S efforts, however, the play lacks substance, as it stumbles from one anti-Catholic innuendo to the next...
...been made so, in Ferraro's view, not by legitimate public interest in her family but by an excess of innuendo, including attempts to link Zaccaro with transgressions by tenants in buildings managed by his firm. Said she: "I think the public is entitled to know whether or not I'm married to Jack the Ripper. I think they're entitled to know whether or not we pay our fair share of taxes. But what I think is wrong is what's going on now. I mean, every day there is another story about another building...