Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Child Is Waiting. There are 5,700,000 "mental defectives" in the U.S., and his picture forces U.S. moviegoers to look them and their problems in the face. The theme is not pleasant but the script (Abby Mann), the direction (John Cassavetes) and the principal performances (Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Bruce Ritchey) are honest and moving...
...couturier's profit, who stepped out of chauffeur-driven limousines with cool, perfumed disdain, pulling sables close about them. For thern^ invitations were not generally required; they had their checkbooks in hand. The press representing the smaller papers kept to the backs of rooms, appeared pink-cheeked and pleasant, proved deadly when cornered ("Out of my way!" shrieked one Midwest reporter caught in an entrance crush, delivering side jabs and bloody noses with the efficiency of a karate enthusiast). They met between shows over bitter coffee, confided their impressions the way girls will, and the way girls will, betrayed...
...easiest way to obtain bee venom is to get stung. But the method is plainly neither pleasant nor practical. Scientists anxious to gather the poison usually settle for a more cautious approach. They collect live insects, grab them one at a time with a pair of tweezers, then deftly slice out the venom sac; or else they persuade the stinging insects to discharge their poison through a rubber membrane...
...Socialist Majesties." But Cambodia, like many pleasant and languid places, is now beset by pressing economic problems. The planned $26 million deficit for this fiscal year has unexpectedly doubled, and the government is so short of cash that the current Five Year Plan is literally out of money. Some $24 million worth of public projects have had to be canceled, and foreign exchange reserves are dwindling at the rate of $1,500,000 a month...
This is the situation examined in this picture. It is not a pleasant situation and it is not a pleasant picture. But as far as it goes the film is bone-honest, and at moments it is mortally moving. Adapted by Abby Mann from his 1957 television play, A Child Is Waiting describes in fiction that keeps close to fact what is being done in the better state schools for retarded children. And in the process it permits the spectator to spend 102 minutes in the company of 40 children clinically classified as imbeciles, idiots and morons-real retardates...