Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team, which has been in somewhat of a hitting slump of late, will miss the bat of Thomas as much as his glove. Thomas has come up with some clutch hits in recent games and his average has been climbing. The team average, on the other hand, has been slipping since the beginning of the season and is now down...
...decision to have the Secretary-Treasurer of the Dunster House Drama Society go down on all fours is not completely right. He tends to steal scenes at the beginning and this is the only thing that ever makes the play seem like children's theatre. Sometimes you wish Miss Gulch had destroyed him after...
...THINK any red-blooded American could honestly say whether The Wizard of Oz is a good movie, since everyone sees it before he thinks of things in those terms. My primary impression of it as a child was fear--I was scared by Miss Gulch, scared by the twister, scared by the monkeys. I was probably scared by the munchkins too, since all I remember is being afraid. None of the happy moments of the film made any impression on me. And later this put me on the track of deeper meanings. If I knew anything about psychology, or folklore...
While two of the men are attracted to the two complex and enigmatic city girls they meet, and a third to the roulette wheel, Hari, the cricket star, concerns himself with a local girl whom the other men jokingly call "Miss India"--they use the English phrase. Her stunning beauty is so captivating, in Hari's eyes--and in ours--that we feel a whole country has been raped by the city boy when she suddenly appears as she really is: a pathetic pauper, drunk and asking for more, begging for work and selling herself to Hari...
...phrase "Banned in Boston" had little to do with movies in Massachusetts--except on Sundays. Even D.W. Griffith's notorious Birth of a Nation--banned in Chicago--was only edited in Boston. But on Sundays the Massachusetts censor held a firm hand. Two early Brattle movies, Miss Julie (from the Strindberg play) and Desires (a German film about morphine addiction) were officially barred from Sunday exhibition. On the second case Brattle went to court, and on July 6, 1955, in the case of Brattle Films v. Otis M. Whitney et. al., the Massachusetts Sunday Censorship Law was declared unconstitutional...