Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half a dozen or so U.S. film festivals. In its eleventh year, the festival has settled into a definite personality: it is everyone's slightly eccentric, goodhearted aunt, the one who grooms herself in the arts and stages soirees that are unavoidable, a little silly but almost always pleasant...
Young people in this part of the country would hear the reactionary message--the tirade against long hair, "free love" and LSD--and somehow would find it pleasant. Two kinds of insecurity about the sixties' new cultural and quasi-political values were assuaged. The paranoids could become enraged, raising a battle cry to fight the "rednecks" to the death, and anyone else with an uneasy self-image of rebelliousness could indulge his smugness by laughing at the yokels. It was better than John Wayne (no guilt about liking "Stagecoach") and besides, it had a great tune...
...graphic enough and features, besides several odd sexual couplings, scenes of vomiting, diarrhea and other indelicate interludes. None are very pleasant, but none are really disturbing either, because Ferreri is not using them for any other purpose except would-be shock. He does not deal in satire that could threaten or amuse, that could give the sequences substance and, therefore, true impact. His careful chronicle of the dietary excesses of four men is like a prank-a loud, bad practical joke. The men-Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret-hole up in an old house...
...they had best not gaze up the 60 stories of the Hancock Building unless they prepare themselves for an aesthetic shock. For hovering above Copley Square--one of Boston's most pleasant sections--is the unfinished checkered Hancock monolith...
Finally our ice cream has not been cheapened by inferior substitutes because of inflation. We still offer pleasant, efficient and courteous service when dispensing our various 31-derful flavors. Sam Citron Harvard Sq. Baskin-Robbins