Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grapes [and various other crops] of wrath: Dartmouth people seem most incensed about the fact that the school is constantly being referred to as "out in the sticks...
Candidates utter words like "protest," "arrest," "jail," "march," "unity," and "fight." Many students seem in a combative mood, although they have yet to find an issue worth fighting over. The candidates are forced to answer questions revealing their stands on such issues as Harvard's investment policy and the constitution's minority representation clause...
...players, the benefits of this set-up seem to outweigh the difficulties. Senior Peter Hilton has served as backfield captain/coach since the spring term of his sophomore year...
...George Grosz's biting satirical portraits of the bloated German bourgeoisie. Director Keith Hack paces the play with caustic Brechtian briskness, and the large cast ably meets that demand. Scene follows scene in revue fashion, and each blackout brings on the string quartet. At first the music seems endearing. Later, the juxtaposition becomes ominous as the waltzes seem more and more like a smiling mask shielding a leper's face...
...part, or casting Belushi in a more prominent role, might well have saved the movie from becoming a low-budget exercise in the training of Jack Nicholson, director. But that's just how it wound up: filming more of the familiar amber-and-brown-soaked Texas landscapes doesn't seem a sufficiently compelling reason for making a movie, much less watching it. To have wasted a talent as versatile and fresh as Belushi's in a cameo role is enough cause to send Nicholson back to those gallows, Julia Tate...