Word: oft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skimpy four pages, the first issue carries only three of the 100 items touted by the ads. One piece tells how to buy a new car for just $125 more than dealer's cost, a tale oft told since 1965, when the system was first devised. Another is a cursory compilation of already available information on legal abortions. A "hard look" at the best buys in 35-mm. cameras neglects to explain the basis for the ratings...
...worshiped his mother and despised his father; naturally his middle-aged son (Gene Hackman) feels the same way. The two clash openly-and obviously-when Gene's garden-club-variety mother dies. Sensitive son mourns while boorish father frets over casket prices and answers sympathy notes with the oft-told tale of his fiscal success in the brass business. Soon the daughter (Estelle Parsons), banished to Chicago for marrying a Jew, arrives for the funeral and winds up giving Gene a lecture on castrating fathers. After much simplistic agonizing, Gene finally delivers the ritual I-wanted-to-love...
...down his chin during the Master of Arts oral exam, the bit was both funny and surprising. But when he appeared on-screen in Move just a couple of months later doing the same thing again, it became self-parody. The theme of I Love My Wife concerns the oft-plumbed conflict between professional success and contemporary marriage; Little Murders deals with urban man's inhumanity to urban man. Is it all getting too familiar? "My God," he says, "this is my work. What difference does it make if I work 40 weeks a year? That's fantastic, especially when...
...same fashion the characters of The Passion of Anna (a really absurd title when you think about it or repeat it very much) and consequently keeps the details of their lives as vague as possible. Almost nothing significant happens on the screen; everything is deliberately consigned to the oft-contradicted past or is omitted and simply brushed over by the narrator (as when and why and how Anna and Andreas start living together, for instance). Plot movement plays such a minimal role that the film seems almost a sequence of still photographs on the varieties of physical and psychic contortions...
Still, the necessity to serve both God and Caesar weighs heavily on many churchmen. Others philosophically shrug it off, with the ancient and oft-repeated Rumanian proverb: "He who lowers his head avoids the sword...