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...good chance of being accepted at a university - if he can pass his exams and shows a "good attitude." The Ts'aos' combined monthly income is about $117. They pay $2.40 a month, including electricity for four bulbs, for a pleasant, three-room apartment in an eight-year-old block of flats for factory workers. It has no kitchen (they eat in can teens), but the Ts'aos have cookouts on their balcony. They have no running water and share a toilet with several other families. The Ts'aos probably would not be encouraged to have...
Thoroughly Modern Millie. Memories are hazy, but this was a delightful film once upon a time, when the tunes seemed pleasant, the acting infectious and the fireworks funny. George Roy Hill directs, slickly, and the cast includes a long-haired Mary Tyler Moore (a charming ingenue), Julie Andrews (sparkling teeth), Carol Channing (cast as an eccentric. Surprise.) and wicked Beatrice Lillie as a landlady who sells young girls with no families into slavery. Cute...
...said, hey, what do you do if you've been on the team three years and they don't know about what you can do yet. And then we get to the end of the year, and they start telling me how I was a pleasant surprise...
...Pleasant surprise?" he says, laughing incredulously. "I said, 'Didn't you know I ran the 100 in 9.6, didn't you know I weigh 190 pounds? That's odd, a pleasant surprise...
Death on the Nile is really very pleasant entertainment-professionally crafted by writer and director, wittily acted, most handsome in its photography, its period sets and costumes. These are all qualities not to be sneezed at in a time when both entertainment and professionalism in aid of amusement, that not very grand but very basic commodity, are in short supply at the movies. Perhaps it is because the picture comes so close to being something more than entertainment, comes close not to art but to something almost as rare-the genuinely delightful -that one comes away from it uneasily, vaguely...