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There is something quaint about the Ivy weekend. With each team facing the same Ancient Eight foe, there is a sense of continuity to the day, a medium unifying all of the day's contests...
...memories are equally warm and fuzzy in Homefront. In this postwar soap opera set in a small Ohio town, mothers greet their returning soldier boys with "your favorite pie" and chide their kids with quaint cliches like, "You move as slow as molasses in January." Not that there isn't trouble in this paradise. One veteran comes home to a sweetheart who has fallen in love with his brother. There are stirrings of race and sex discrimination as well. A black veteran applies for work at the local factory but is told the only opening is for a janitor...
...release the story from its period setting. No matter how dark and violent Van Kipnis and Eggar choose to make the story, stylized fight choreography will always evoke memories of Robin kapowing the Riddler in the old Batman series. And the war council in Doc's drug store seems quaint when compared with the drive-by shootings and crack dens of today...
...quaint world of Scum--complete with its filthy streets and tortured inhabitants--is gone. But Singer, by capturing the mood of 1906 working-class Warsaw life and adding a dimension to the narrative, elevates this book from a mere sex-riddled tale to a significant social commentary...
...show-biz saying: Bad rehearsal, good show. Or, in this case, pretty good show. Like a lot of us who came of age in the late '40s and early '50s, Neil Simon obviously based his youthful fantasies about the glamorous life on newspaper reports of "playboys" (such a quaint word), who when they weren't racing fast cars spent their idle lives in pursuit of fast women. The script has about it a nice, sweet-dreaming quality, and animation director Jerry Rees, working for the first time on a feature, has invested The Marrying Man with a very pleasant innocence...