Word: semis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rosi's movie is a semi-documentary investigation of that crash, as dramatically formless as a pile of researcher's note cards shuffled and dealt out at random, leaving the viewer to reach whatever conclusion he pleases about the cause of Mattel's ugly demise. This formlessness dictates a film less suspenseful and, in the end, less satisfying than it might have been. It never quite pierces the surface to reach the dramatic possibilities we know to be buried in the dark depths below...
...same problem is a crusher for O Lucky Man! though Anderson's politics have changed. This three-hour picaresque story (again photographed by Ondricek) grew out of a semi-autobiographical comedy Malcolm McDowell, the star of the film, wrote about his early years as a traveling coffee salesman. Anderson and David Sherwin went to work on enlarging McDowell's comedy into a major work. They extended McDowell's ideas into a string of improbable events which eventually present Malcolm McDowell's success -- his rise from coffee salesman to actor -- as a paradigm for humanity. Yet, despite the writers' attempts...
...main attraction for tourists will be a semi-circular glass-enclosed museum housing memorabilia from Kennedy's years in the White House, but the visitors will also tour Cambridge, and it is the latter point that has people in the City more than a little bit upset...
Sanders, who was on eight of those championship teams, found himself on the bench for most of last season and contributed little to the team's 4-3 series loss in this year's NBA play-off semi-finals against New York...
With Oil-Baron Hurt hiding behind the plate waiting for a curve from Fran Schumeresque, Mike Brewer blasted one over Tree Wilking in center field for a four-bagger. The run was later nullified because Brewer, who plays semi-pro ball 40 hours per week, was ruled ineligible for yesterday's contest...