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The Crimson's Confidential Guide to Harvard would be a more valuable publication if there were less unsubstantiated editorializing and fewer and hominem attacks on particular Instructors. Specifically, the Confi Guide's description of Social Sciences 147, a new course last spring, is in my opinion a petulant diatribe without...
Cole is a self-described hedonist but he comes across as merely petulant, self-indulgent and boring. He treats his sister rudely, not maliciously, but he makes bothersome demands on her and she must keep house for him. He flirts obnoxiously with girls on the streets and in hamburger joints...
The acting in this film is marvelous, particularly Innokenty Smoktunosky's Vanya. His petulant spats with his maman, his grandiose pretensions, his weepy self-pity; the sarcastic facial expressions alone are phenomenal. Sergei Bondarchuk, as Dr. Astrov, is a bit too much the Russian bear for my taste. Astrov's...
After a week of petulant demands and infuriating delays, U.S. Grand Master Bobby Fischer, 29, finally showed up in Reykjavik, Iceland, for his best-of-24-game match with World Champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union (TIME, July 17). But he was still bellyaching. He griped about the lights...
Most of the portrayals are equally competent if occasionally irritating. Daniel Von Gargen as the artist trying to marry Vandergelder's timid niece Ermengarde often seems too foppishly petulant in his clownish suit. And the cook in the VanHuysen household (to which Ermengarde is sent for safe-keeping), provides a...