Word: neat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George Miller, who has played More twice before, certainly seems to know what he's doing this time around. In John Manulis's production at the Loeb Ex, Miller's More is surrounded by an aura of saintliness from the very beginning. While he delivers More's witticisms with neat comic timing, the Lord Chancellor's unearthly rectitude remains clearly predominant over his passion for life. We know from the first that here is a man not long for this world...
...also said to be upset by the attention paid her by young female prisoners, who made her a cult heroine of the left. Patty demanded to be moved, and on Nov. 9 was transferred to San Diego's Metropolitan Correctional Center, where she occupied a small, neat cell by herself and washed dishes and made coffee for the inmates...
...broad as your grandpa's barn door, How Funny Can Sex Be? has turned out to be one of the few successful foreign films of the year. Full of coarse-ground jokes about some of the more unlikely vicissitudes of love, Italian-style, the film is turning a neat dollar apparently because of, not despite, its defects. The sex in this movie may not be very funny, but it is bawdy enough to be naughty without being graphic enough to offend. In other words, it is a safe sex comedy...
...Guinness in a Midwest remake of The Captain's Paradise, the taciturn bureaucrat for years had secretly been supporting two separate families in two South Dakota towns some 200 miles apart: Pierre (pop. 10,300), where he maintained both a branch office and a modest house in a neat, middle-class neighborhood, and Sioux Falls (pop. 79,800), where he had his main office and a flat in an apartment complex known as the Tally...
Director Herbert Ross (Funny Lady, The Sunshine Boys) is uncertain throughout about whether to play things straight or risk a little satire. Ross made a neat if rather prissy puzzle a few years back called The Last of Sheila, but here all clues are obvious, all deductions self-evident. Ross is usually adept with actors too, but in this case, Williamson's Holmes is too wired, even for someone giving up coke, and Duvall's Watson resembles a vaudeville Englishman, all jowls and bluster. This excess is echoed in the accents of Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave (who plays...