Word: nits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry Livings' running assault on logic, the glorification of a British "nit," a living non sequitur whose code of life is "Bim bom ban on the brain...
...Henry Livings, is incongruous, unpredictable and farcical. So is Dustin Hoffman's performance as a British "nit." So is Alan Arkin's direction. So is life...
...scene. The film's conceptual flaw is in the character of the carpenter, a prefabrication rather obviously nailed onto a thesis. Socially and psychologically in limbo, freely indulging his impulses, François may be intended as a natural Everyman but can also seem a bit of a nit, a boy rover in a working-class wonderland. Tested against cold reality, his story rings false; yet Varda gives it the aura of just-discovered truth, of a vision entirely personal and poetic...
Even President Bunting became impatient with RGA's nit-picking at a meeting last Fall and stunned the representatives by asking them to consider abolishing social rules. RGA responded in a predictable fashion; it appointed a committee, which plodded along for five months before making any recommendations...
...NIT has been dominated so far by the short men. Nemelka, an All-American and B.Y.U's top scorer on the team is only six feet tall. The entire Army team did not have a starter over...