Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then, this is no Romeo and Juliet score, and Cacoyannis is nt to euripideswhat Franco Zefferellis is to Shakespeare: a perpetrator of soppy drivel for the masses. Iphigenia has the power and appeal to be relatively popular, and if you disregard the final scene, the only thing the movie sacrifices is Iphigenia herself...
Equally relevant is an evolution of popular taste in entertainment...
Niceness, to put it baldly, is not as popular as it used to be. Catering to more sophisticated filmgoers, Hollywood each year produced fewer and fewer movies that suited the Music Hall's strict policy of offering only films and stage shows that were suitable for family viewing. It was no great surprise that the featured film last week was a treacly Walt Disney production called Pete's Dragon...
...talent involved in this one--direction by the intermittently brilliant Carl Reiner and a script by the dependably slick Larry Gelbart--Oh God! should have been an irreverent romp. What emerges is an overlong television sketch, a limp, unimaginative, and boring monument to middle-class tolerance; in short, a popular favorite that could set comedy back...
...list goes on and on: A fine squash player, a popular and effective captain, a good sport and a romper room do-be. (Well, three out of these four are well-documented.) Lest the reader worry that the canonization of another Saint Mark is imminent, Havens has graced us with the following story...