Word: losely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They Lose...
...Brown band develops halftime shows and cheers to suit cornerkicks rather than touchdowns. The Brown Daily Herald cannot lose to the CRIMSON, 23-2, this morning, for all its reporters will be in the stands of AldrichDexter Field when the Bruins and Harvard clash for the Ivy League soccer title...
...depth and emotional impact of particular characters are not Ophuls' sole aims. Toward the end, as characters and episodes come faster and the unifies of time and space begin to soften, a certain flattening of emotions increases. In the last episode memory breaks down, events lose their poignancy, and the number of characters prevents deep involvement with any of them. A quality of regret and detachment, of precise character-description without emotional immediacy, leads us out of the drama as it completes its circular plan. Ophuls, like Sirk, believes that art should establish distances...
...film trivial and simple, and became deeper and more important to the characters, are lost in the proliferation of incidents and characters. Our detachment imperceptibly increases as his characters grow older and more sophisticated, as their relations become games between people who know how to manage each other. We lose the little intensity Ophuls allowed us: emotions and characters who seemed light before become sympathetic innocents in retrospect...
Sports would seem to be an ideal subject for movies. They are fast, colorful, suspenseful and sometimes violent. Yet they generally come out looking forced and fake, because they are used as a background for some trite melodrama. Football players lose their power on the field because their wives are frigid (Number One); drivers louse up on the racing track because their women are fickle (Winning); fighters sell out under the influence of booze, dames and the mob (Golden...