Word: modeste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might, in the process, discover just what game is afoot. But he doesn't, and neither does a cop who stops the escaping Sutherland because the van carrying the swag to the airport has a malfunctioning taillight. Magicovsky was our last hope for some real excitement, but only modest suspense is generated by the encounter. Like everything else in this movie, it is underplayed and underwritten. Noel Black, who once did a curiously perverse little movie called Pretty Poison, is capable of stronger work, and so are these performers. Mere agreeability is just not enough to sustain a movie...
...call such writers psychologizers and sociologizers," he said. "Nineteenth-century writers were more modest--they didn't think their works would redeem humanity," he added...
...turn, by 1985 Renault will get a 22.5% interest in a company that, after teetering on the edge of disaster on and off for 25 years, is staging a modest rally, mainly because of the popularity of its reliable Jeep. In the nine months ended June 30, while Chrysler was sinking deeper into debt, AMC made a profit of $73.3 million, compared with $10.7 million in the same period a year earlier...
...quibble? Jones was a latecomer to the unpretentious, slam-bang Warner Bros, animation department, and if he did not invent most of the studio's great cartoon stars, he brought the house manner to its finest flowering, less elaborate than Disney's, but often far funnier. This modest retrospective provides a fine occasion to salute an American original working in a medium that will never get its critical due, but continues to exercise a mighty claim on affectionate memory. -Richard Schickel
...witnessing the end of their cherished home away from home, a small piece of America transplanted to a well-tended tropical setting beside the beloved waterway. Anti-American propaganda held that the Zonians had reveled in colonial splendor amid the surrounding squalor of Panama. In truth, their homes were modest by U.S. standards and their incomes only adequate. Said one longtime Zonian, on his way for a last rum punch at the historic Spanish colonial-style Washington Hyatt Hotel in Colon: "We saved the best things of the American way of life...