Word: nicely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same kind of confusion hits several other pieces. Chris Hart's "Jumping John" is a nice little parody of the modern-sordid school of writing, but like James Dickson's "The Modigliani Face," it relies for its humor on the dubious assumption that any real-life trend will be funny if exaggerated enough. Now that may be a sure-fire key to effective political satire (e.g. exaggerate the horrors of war and people will get fed up with it), but it doesn't always make for a good laugh. Dickson, by plugging in tidbits of humor-in-microcosm ("Brackley...worked...
ABOUT MIDWAY through Hot Millions, a friend turned to me and said, "This movie has such ugly men." She's probably right--Peter Ustinov, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart and Robert Morley no doubt are ugly by most people's standards--and that's typical of the nice moves that went into the making of Hot Millions...
Like the ugly men, the other nice things about this picture are also strange. In its slick color photography, advertising campaign, title and plot, Hot Millions gives the appearance of being yet another film of the glamorous grand robbery mode (Charade, How to Steal a Million, Gambit, et al). But, for all these superficial indications, this movie has little to do with beautiful people or even money. Not only that, but it's a suspense film with little suspense; a comedy with few big laughs; a love story with no flesh. And Hot Millions characters are the kind of people...
...that the Harvard-Yale game will be close. It must be kept firmly in mind, at least for the glory of it, that Yale is one of the greatest teams in the nation, in history, in the universe, in the mind of God, and that Harvard, albeit nice and good and undefeated, is no match for Brian Dowling, that wonderful hero, and the rest of the Yale football team...
...Yogurt is a nice symbol for me," said Rossman, who claims that selling yogurt and fence painting grew out of his work in Soc Rel 136--a new course on the student's role in the University. "Why should a non-profit institution like Harvard make 96 percent on Yogurt when a grocer makes only 22 per cent...