Word: nondescripts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OVERCOAT. In this virtually flawless Russian film based on Gogol's classic story, Roland Bykov is superb as the nondescript clerk for whom a new overcoat becomes a matter of life and death...
Rusher is a nondescript sort of man, neither stilted nor folksy, laconic nor rambling, soft-spoken nor raucous. But perched on a table in a Union conference room or leaning over a coffee cup in the Yard of Ale, he makes a glib, effective speaker. Rusher has a quieter kind of charm than the flamboyant Buckley. He punctutes his remarks with precise gestures, and smiles often. But his eyes are hard, his lips thin, and he smiles with his mouth alone...
...OVERCOAT. In this virtually flawless Russian film based on Gogol's classic story, Roland Bykov is superb as the nondescript clerk for whom a new overcoat becomes a matter of life and death...
...Ball is a misaddressed musical mailbag. Buddy Hackett, a droll fellow of manic and mournful mien, should be readdressed to oldtime burlesque, where his earthy urbanisms could blue the air like cigar smoke. The frenetically agitated dances should be restored to the speeded-up silent film. The nondescript music should be sent back to recompose itself. The book has never left its natural state-pulp...
...Room a nondescript couple named Hudd have recently moved into a ramshackle single room. Mrs. Hudd gabbles cheerfully about how cosy and secluded it is: "We don't bother anybody . . . We keep ourselves to ourselves." Preferring not to know the identity of her neighbors, she huddles jealously in her stranded little apartment. Her husband stonily pores over a Classics Illustrated while she speaks...