Word: knick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leverett House Old Library around on its axis, so to speak, converting the staircase that the audience descends into the theater into the staircase of Wyke's mansion. Beyond that, however, there is only a smallish fireplace, some dull furniture and a few half-hearted pokes at interesting knick-knacks. To convey Wyke's obsession with sophisticated games, Garry gives us a few propped-up commercial board games such as "Master Mind," and the so-called "ancient Chinese blocking game" is nothing more than a small, beat-up chess...
...brown inset eyes, and a perfectly clear complexion which was lightly tanned from the summer. She had spent a few weeks in the mountains which added a healthy glow to her already striking features. She seemed to know exactly where she wanted to place all her photographs and little knick-knacks, and her side of the room rapidly took on a warm homey appearance. Adrian was a little less sure of where she wanted her things to go, partly because she felt that nothing she could ever do would make that cavernous hole, look any better. Adrian was very blonde...
...FASSBINDER fails ideologically, he redeems himself through exciting visual effects. It is easy to point out influences in this respect: he places characters in their social setting with the exactitude of Sirk, revelling in the banal and vulgar in terms of taste (flowered wallpaper and knick knacks abound in Mother K.'s apartment); he makes Brechtian use of awkward camera positioning to alienate, shooting not from within the action, but as an observer so that his audience will be responsible for creating its own realism; like Godard, he favors a fade-out to black between shots, allowing his viewer...
...York Knick fans, April 1974 is the cruelest month of the cruelest year. The Knicks not only fell to their arch-rivals, the Celtics, in the final of the Eastern Conference playoffs, but also lost their top player, number 22, Dave DeBusschere...
...these factors Paul Westphal's knack for slicing through the Knick's faltering defense for a few quick baskets, and the Celts look like sure winners over the fading Knicks...