Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around, but it has been exaggerated out of all reality." He continued, "There is no animus, personal animus, and there is no bickering or back-stabbing going on." Then, the punch line: "We're very happy group." Members of the press corp could not stifle their laughter at that remark...
...remark "If the show plays to empty seats, the failure will not belong to the Royal Shakespeare Company or the importers but to the Broadway audience" is as ridiculous as the exorbitant $100-a-ticket price. While your article notes that Nicholas Nickleby was a smash in London, it does not mention that there theatergoers could pay a measly $14 a seat...
...goes, promising to make sense of the past few decades of American architectural taste with a short book, published this month, titled From Bauhaus to Our House (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 143 pages, $10.95). Wolfe has talent as a stirrer, but his text bears out John Stuart Mill's remark that "the second-rate superior minds of a cultivated age .. . are usually in exaggerated opposition against its spirit...
...read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power." He draws a charming portrait of his father, who passed on his bibliophilia, and a colorfully contradictory one of his father-figure, Lord Beaverbrook. Foot reminisces warmly about his exasperating fellow journalist Randolph Churchill, but repeats the remark that he "should not be allowed out in private." He sketches a learned dissertation on the political significance of Disraeli's novels and states the case for Hazlitt as England's Shakespeare of prose...
...Bergen at all supportive, Bisset decides to accept. She goes to meet him. There is some hint that her boyfriend Hart Bochner has involved himself with Bergen's daughter (the melodrama again), but the film never clarifies this point. It actually matters little. More importantly, he makes some remark about marriage, and she responds with, "Is that what you think marriage is?" He doesn't answer this question; he can't. In Hollywood romantic comedies, the couple traditionally uses conversation to parry and thrust, to test one another. The man who can match Hepburn's words can win her. Bisset...