Word: mull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which only goes to reinforce the fact that nobody cares more genuinely about movies than Kael. They move and compel her to weigh each nuance, to mull over each jarring image, and to track down every pop association like an amateur sociologist-sleuth. She even lifts and carries the torah for the whole creative tradition in her long, worried, and proscriptive essay on the film industry, "On the Future of the Movies." And when she's in top form, Kael merits the hackneyed testimonial, "she cares enough to be brilliant." Hopefully she will weather the hyperbolic fuss over film critics...
Candid Warning. Among the things the King had to mull over was an unexpectedly candid warning from Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Madrid. In a televised sermon delivered during the accession ceremonies, Cardinal Tarancón announced the church's intention to speak out "and shout if necessary" to protect human rights and liberties in Spain. The church would demand, he added, that Juan Carlos' government "promote the exercise of adequate freedom for all and the necessary common participation in all the problems and decisions of government...
...stand are those intended for children. Or, more properly, those that cater to those preadolescent fantasies that most have never truly abandoned. The Six Million Dollar Man is a well-established example of this innocent merriment. While the children get off on their superman fantasies, Mom and Pop may mull the sexual problems and possibilities inherent in a creature who is half man, half Timex...
...execution the idea gets lost, and estranged from what happens on the screen. So an interpretation of the film is a faintly boring afterthought: in the theater it's clear that significant things are going on, but precisely what they are is unclear unless you force yourself to mull it over afterwards, an artificial resurrection of what you think went...
...press cleared out quickly, but many supporters remained behind to mull over the campaign. "I'm leaving now," one campaign worker said, "before everyone gets drunk...