Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he says his designs come out of a "crucible of pain," Saint Laurent has an extraordinarily fertile and precise imagination. Working in Marrakech, seldom spending more than 15 minutes on a single drawing, he designed his latest collection so perfectly that not a bead or button had to be changed when he arrived at his Paris headquarters to inspect the finished array of 106 styles...
...that Brian de Palma has made an exquisite entertainment that sends one back to Hitchcock, the masterly Vertigo in particular, for comparison. Obsession is a triumph of style over substance. Vilmos Zsigmond's camera, constantly on the move with a sinuous grace, is romantic in a manner seldom seen now in the movies. The late Bernard Herrmann's score, like the many he did for Hitchcock and Welles, is an instrument of flight, lifting the viewer up and over such resistance as he may have to the movie's patent improbability...
...froze. My adam's apple beat wildly against a seldom-worn and imperfectly-tied tie: "Well, sir, it's like some people read historical novels, they want to live in the past--I want to live in the future." I was sliding through it, wiping Vaseline on the pants leg of my best double-knits. The interviewer fixed me with a stern, approving smile, and I smiled back just as firmly behind set lips, because on important mornings you can forget to brush your teeth, and I wasn't taking any chances. And it came to pass that I entered...
...time surgeons finished patching him up, they realized Rojas's case could well go into medical annals. One of the bullets had made an incredible 32-inch journey through his body; yet the man miraculously survived. The case was so extraordinary that its like has seldom been seen before...
Hart's lyrics were seldom brisker or more uninhibited and Rodgers' tunes were rarely suaver or wittier...