Word: phoniest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deep into this long, mawkish film, the script calls for Susan Sarandon to tumble from a rowboat into a stormy sea off Greece. What she plunges into is some of the phoniest-looking surf since a toy ship foundered in the special-effects tank in The Caine Mutiny. It looks all the more phony because we have earlier seen stunning views of the real Aegean. This neatly symbolizes the trouble with The Other Side of Midnight: the backgrounds are convincing, the drama has been churned up at the studio...
LINDSAY AND McGOVERN. No one spent more money (an aide said it was more than $300,000, others estimated it at $500,000) in Florida than New York's Mayor John Lindsay. No one made his position clearer. Lindsay sailed into Wallace, calling him "the phoniest populist since time began" and claiming that "he is no man of the people when he travels with 25 muscular state troopers with bulges under their coats." Lindsay argued that the only alternative to busing was "perpetual racial segregation" and that the nation could not afford such alienation. He criticized his senatorial rivals...
Thanks largely to Asher, Taylor's problem from now on will not be how to secure the success he has lately won but how to live with it personally. The concept of a shy artist suddenly overwhelmed by commerce is one of the phoniest wheezes in show business. Yet given James' predilection for privacy and peace, as well as his slender hold on personal stability, it may prove genuine enough in his case...