Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle-aged Dutchman, Allert Vanderveenan, who is waiting, alone, for his wife to leave him. This is clear by page two. What remains is to unfold the narrator's involuted emotional life with a disquieting force that could not have been imagined by the inventor of the catch phrase, "psychological novel...
...life with her, but Producer Stephen Friedman's adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel Leaving Cheyenne does not give the actors any emotionally revealing scenes to play. The script's dominant and ultimately boring mode is half-expressed rue leavened by quaint down-home turns of phrase. In attempting to cover four decades in an hour and a half, the story uses an enormous amount of voice-over narration. The device does not exactly enhance our involvement with the film. Director Lumet, venturing for the first time into Western territory, betrays the dude's classic enchantment...
...make the comparison absolute. Still, "My money is as good as his" is accepted American doctrine. Where it does not prevail, as in country-club memberships but even more in discriminatory housing, the contrary practice is usually covert, generally awkward, often shamefaced and sometimes illegal. Yet even though the phrase has the required democratic ring, it usually means asserting a common right to spend to achieve an unequal advantage...
...Martha's relatives-Miss Douglas refuses to write a happy ending to her fairy tale. Martha and Lucas go up in the sort of gorgeous ritual blaze of self-destruction that besets Southern-Gothic houses in Southern-Gothic novels. But Martha and Lucas qualify, in Miss Douglas' phrase, as "celebrators of life"-and so does she, dramatizing with all the reason and passion at her command the bland and heinous modern crime of burying one's ancestors before they are dead...
During sophomore year, Stevens had begun to acquire the habits that were, ultimately, the source of his dissolution. The phrase "identity crisis" was invented to describe the impact of sophomore year on Harvard-Radcliffe students, who are suddenly exposed to all the possibilities for their life at college. Their choices become their outlets for the remaining three years...