Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They also have the panache that has always been characteristic of those who trust their lives to the winds and their wits. While passing over a mountain in Maine last September, Abruzzo began yodeling through an old brass megaphone on the pleasant theory that he could tell from the echoes how close they were to danger...
Gareth Jones brings a pleasant tenor to the straight role of the half-mortal Strephon, and Kenneth Sandford, who has been with the troupe for more than two decades, is a sturdy Private Willis (he will be giving something close to his 2100th performance as Pooh-Bah in The Mikado here...
...became apparent that it would be released in America at about the same time as The Cheap Detective typifies in many ways the elements of style and wit that have made de Broca a perennial favorite in more places than just Cambridge. It is the rather silly, but nonetheless pleasant, story of a high-ranking Parisian police inspector who just happens to be a woman. Funny thing, that--it appears the protagonist of almost every new film nowadays has to be female. While there is surely nothing wrong with that, the sudden shift away from the predominance of male leads...
...latest, a charming combination of love story and mystery. The combination doesn't quite make it, but the combination of Annie Giradot as the harried inspector on a big case and falling in love all at once and Phillipe Noiret as her college professor-lover. Entertaining and very pleasant, but don't go looking for a big mystery...
They had a pleasant long chat, during which they agreed that the state of affairs in the world had taken a turn for the worse since the early 1970s. The were both pleased that the Indochina War had ended, but they acknowledged that evil was still widespread--and people seemed less willing to fight it. And Mrs. Butterfield was worried about her husband, Lyman H. Butterfield, professor emeritus of History, who had not been well...