Word: peculiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luckily, there are the snazzy Richard Adler-Jerry Ross songs. It is with these that Yankees connects often enough to made much of the evening throb with that special kind of joy peculiar to the musical theatre...
Though the film departs considerably from Gavin Maxwell's witty, eccentric book, it does manage to convey that peculiar love for a pet that can amount to an obsession. In addition, it provides the accepting child viewer with the prime requisites for motion pictures: 1) a star with fur, 2) adults who look foolish (as Merrill does when he tries, by flapping his arms, to teach a gosling to fly), and 3) no love scenes except those between otter and otter. The result is little otters, making Ring of Bright Water the best sex-education film ever...
...KIRCHNER paints a girl's face like a summer lime. Blue cheek bones, black and red eyes. Smearing pink, red over the bright surface, his violent hand defines her delicacy. In every harshly subtle gesture, sensitivity spins and enmeshes this violence. Throwing his personality into all his works, this peculiar vision of the world emerges from shocking colors and distorted figures. Every work is a self portrait...
...OTHER characters, Stuart Rubinow as Dick Deadeye is the most striking. Rubinow's capacity for investing his villains with the most detestable and repugnant qualities seems infinite, and it is a shame that Deadeye gives him relatively little scope for this peculiar but essential ability. Also constrained by the minute size of her part, Joan Lucas as Hebe, Sir Joseph's First cousin, neverthless makes character so appealing you find yourself wishing Gilbert had given her more lines...
...campaign aides at key moments, first because he is watching the All-Star baseball game on television, next because he is playing softball with a group of nuns? What about his pettiness toward opponents, his long refusal to endorse Humphrey after the Vice President won the nomination, or his peculiar reaction to the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia as something one should not get excited about? It has the elements of deep fiction or psychological drama, so perhaps it is fitting that two critic-novelists think that they have found the answers...