Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local newspaper has complained that Moscow's Domodedovo airport -one of four in the Soviet capital-is a marvel of inefficiency where travelers are often greeted with the refrain, "No space, comrades. The aircraft aren't made of rubber, you know." Aeroflot stewardesses seem to be chosen for neither beauty nor efficiency. Refreshments are often limited to candy distributed before takeoff...
...boffo-ness. With a less surrealistic touch Borowczyk maintains the same tenor of classy send-up that Bunuel attained throughout most of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Dissected a bit more, the whole business might be interpreted as a restless and repressed Victorian fantasy. But let's refrain from spoiling with pretentious theories a film that makes such good fun of its own pretentious style. Call Story of Sin a paean to romanticism in reverse. And take with a grain of salt its subject matter: the exquisite fruitness...
...then there's the self-consciously artistic way Horovitz sandwiches the action between the refrain of a popular song wafting in from the wings. The sappy, off-key message is that Murph and Joey, poor lost crime-ridden souls, are "lookin' for your door and can't find it." Horovitz's technique is too glib, too conventional...
...because if Massachusetts adopts this amendment, other states will doubtless (see "1776" for proof) follow. And as soon as New York passes the amendment, those Yankee Stadium bleacherites will refrain from throwing their empty Rheingold cans at the enemy rightfielder so as not to lose their nickel of a deposit...
...indulgent manner, Gray does a disservice to those who must confront them in real life. Stephanie, in her interminable conversations with a hip Jesuit friend, rhapsodizes about her yearning for freedom. Yet every time he suggests that she take a real step towards it, she lapses into a whining refrain about how tough it is for women. By this time, of course, one has completely lost interest in any of the things Stephanie is searching for; it becomes increasingly hard to believe that what she wants can be worth having...