Word: priceless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seering social satire? Certainly the sting and class indictment in this story about an upper crust weekend at a country estate is undeniable. And yet Renoir also manages to pay tribute to loneliness, love and the more harmless foibles of servants and bourgeois along the way. Added to priceless observations, this film treats us to the acting talents of Renoir himself, as the oafish, big-spirited Octave, who in the name of civility and social convention must see his true and secret love unrequited. See this masterpiece, again--and if you've already done that once more...
...liberal arts education is one of life's most precious experiences for its own sake. The appreciation of culture and world perspective it offers cannot be given a monetary value--in the thruest sense of the word they are priceless. However, to claim that an envigorating liberal arts experience prepares one for commerce better than graduate business school education is to value the liberal arts experience for the wrong reasons and deny the expertise of the professional. Anish Mathai B.A., 1968, Delhi University M.B.A., 1977, Harvard Business School Mark Filippell B.A., 1975, DePauw University M.B.A., 1977, Harvard Business School
Last night, Mr. Gordone said to me, "People don't make money on love." My embarassment was shrouded with the realization of his words. Indeed, future lectures are threatened if we cannot pay for a favor--a two-day favor at that. The knowledge gained from Mr. Gordone was priceless and $100 could not begin to pay for that. He told us to forget about it, talked for three more hours, and at the end of the night, he asked us to send him a Harvard t-shirt for a souvenir...
...will probably keep duped "cinema" students taking copious notes. Freudian symbolism gushes from every object close-up: the postcard nudes looking like overripe cherubs, the town philosopher walking his black Great Dane, the chamber pots that our protagonists keep filling with pure water. One bit of this spoof is priceless: after some gorgeous but solemn footage of a French museum, Borowczyk has one of his characters distractedly walk right into the lap of a painted reclining nude...
Indian, to help them salvage the booty and thwart the Mob. But while they are feverishly scooping up drug ampules, they discover greater treasure: a chest of priceless jewelry once intended for the mistress of King Philip V of Spain...