Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roeg's excellent Walkabout) acts Billy with easeful understanding. The depth of their friendship, and all of its meaning, is shunted aside in favor of sharpening up the same dull point: civilized man is the true primitive, and out laws are ground down because they are creatures of pure, therefore intolerable freedom. The people who made this movie may have found a fresh scene in Australia, but what they really needed was a new theme...
...Yankees acquired some good runners from the minors, too. Mickey Rivers, from the farm club called the California Angels, stole more than 43 bases and Willie Randolph from the farm club in Pittsburgh, stole 35 bases. One pure-bred Yankee, Roy White, snagged about 29 bases...
...claims that the change was a result of the Bowman controversy is "pure nonsense," he added...
...hardly surprising that Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, whatever Norman Lear's original intent, didn't end up as pure parody. Soap operas as a genre already verge on self-parody; the swelling music, anguished faces, mystifying plot complications and sexual entanglements all represent exaggerations of the vicissitudes of life on the other side of the screen. Parodying parody is a difficult business at best, and why bother when you can go parody one up and deliver instead what the New York Times Magazine called "the ultimate slice of life...
...called The Wanton Wind, whose renewal or cancellation depends on their whim. The Wanton Wind has obvious parallels with Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; it is set, for example, in Breezewood (instead of Fernwood), and its young Don Juan, Brent Owen, resembles Sgt. Dennis Foley. But The Wanton Wind is pure parody in a way Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman is not--highly stylized, it comes complete with musical flourishes, tensely meaningful looks and lines like "Don't fight it. It's bigger than the both...