Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author: "McDonald's is a great machine that belches forth hamburgers. The whole thing is aimed at the six-year-old palate. They don't salt things enough, and the malts taste like melted ice cream. But the place is efficient and clean, and the help is pleasant. The packaging is damned smart because it insulates. The food may be more honest than some things you get at higher prices...
...have to know what the people in charge here expect you to be. They expect you to be passive, but their word for it is "active." They'll give you pleasant things to do and you'll spend a lot of time doing them and, with a little luck, you'll convince yourself you wanted to do them, maybe even that you thought of them. You'll be 40 years old when you graduate. And you may have pleased your parents, but you'll already be dead...
...annually unleashes his troops on New York City and relishes good wine and Tchaikovsky as much as fencing, who transports his squad in his personal car with driving skills ranking somewhere between a Boston taxi driver and a blind man, who has become a living tradition, an expectation, a pleasant and different surprise, who fits the kindly old world professor image more than the American coaching stereotype and who amalgamates the two into an unforgettable and wonderfully unique balance. Edo Marion remains...
...contrast to the insatiable big-time fund raisers who persuaded the companies to make illegal contributions from corporate funds, a Pennsylvania judge has just provided his backers with a pleasant surprise...
Even walking through a standardized part, Scott has enough natural presence to compel an audience's attention, and it is always pleasant to see Palance doing his thing as an oily heavy, though no one will ever accuse him of being an actor who has grown with the years. Dunaway, however, is inadequate, and Mills is stray-sheepish. In the end, one is reduced to admiring the scenery while puzzling over the disparity between the film's slick physical production and smoothed-down dramatic style, and the historical moment it purports to examine: a time that was down...