Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...break writer's block? There are many traditional answers: change of scenery, change of work habits, drop everything and see a James Bond movie. Durrell recommends insulting oneself while shaving and concentrating on unpaid bills. T.S. Eliot broke his block by writing poems in French. (Dabbling in lesser languages removes pressure to perform in mother tongue.) Tom Wolfe, to tally blocked on his first famous article, a story about customized cars for Esquire, wrote a really socko memorandum to his editor on the subject. The editor ran the memo as the article. Wolfe now writes all his articles...
...staggered to an 82. In 1936 H.B. Martin wrote: "There is no more flagrant case of miscarried justice than in the story of MacDonald Smith, youngest of the Smith clan and the most brilliant...Dame Fate took a particular delight in mocking his genius, encouraging him with lesser prizes but always refusing his demand for stellar honors...
...spectacle of star-struck women clustering about this Valentino is plausible. The script wisely makes use of Nureyev's awesome talents on a dance floor at several stages, and the opportunity to watch him glide through tangos briefly takes one's mind off the film's many lesser moments. Russell did choose good raw material for the title character, but the script he co-authored with Mardik Martin provides little help for a novice actor in definite need of some solid support...
...Valention remains a distant figure, a romantic anachronism bursting forth with panache and charisma and little else. Russell seems to persist in the belief that audiences enjoy having their senses assaulted and will consider it entertainment; grotesques and caricatures dot the screen in Valentino, evoking some of Fellini's lesser films. The ambience of the Twenties is effectively recaptured by the film, but Valentino never gets around to addressing the ethos that prevailed in the America of that fabled epoch. And judging by this performance, Michelle Phillips would do well to try a comeback as a reconstructed Mama with...
...Valentino remains a distant figure, a romantic anachronism bursting forth with panache and charisma and little else. Russell seems to persist in the belief that audiences enjoy having their senses assaulted and will consider it entertainment; grotesques and caricatures dot the screen in "Valentino," evoking some of Fellini's lesser films. The ambience of the Twenties is effectively recaptured by the film, but "Valentino" never gets around to addressing the ethos that prevailed in the America of that fabled epoch. And judging by this performance, Michelle Phillips would do well to try a comeback as a reconstructed Mama with...