Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actors are funny, although Martin, Greenberg, Paul Jackel as Dick and William Nabel as Captain Courageous are the best. They all play with the right amount of archness, overacting just enough to remind us that we are, after all, superior to this sort of thing nowadays. It's a little bit like taking candy from a baby, but it makes for a pleasant enough evening at the theater...
Money matters are very much on the U.N.'s mind this fall. Last month the organization had to remind 23 defaulting members to pay their 1972 assessments. U.N. deficits have ranged between $53 million and $70 million in recent years, not counting a tab of $16.6 million that Taiwan left behind when it was expelled last year...
...society in which ideas, emotions and talent are consumed and disposed of as readily as other products, Barthelme himself is in danger of going into the public maw. His distinctive style and fractured vision are now so refined and of such a predictable consistency that they begin to remind one of-well, Chinese baby food
...shot TV commentator, I felt obliged to remind Frank of the curious paradox. Indeed, I socked it to him Hardin fast. Strange, the network cut this part of our conversation from its broadcast. Now I would never allege managed news or any such nefariously evil skullduggery. And yet there is the coincidence that the Assistant to the President of ABC Sports is one Dick Ebersol, Yale '69, classmate of F. Shorter. But sooner or later the truth will out in the Crimson. Today...
...imagery, towards a mature acceptance of emotional struggle and transformation, and a pure film style based on character. Dealing with an aging doctor's recognition of his sins during a trip to Stockholm taken with his daughter-in-law, the film develops in vignettes suggested by the scenes which remind the doctor of his youth. It is not as piercing as such later Bergman films as Persons and A Passion, but it is more hopeful, and thus perhaps more satisfying. Victor Sjosfrom's performance as the doctor is simple, direct and true, and Gunnar Fisher's photography is lyrical. Renoir...