Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This grotesque tale of a happy marriage has the unsettling effect on a reader of a stop-motion film, in which otherwise familiar flowers bud, blossom and decay in a few shallow breaths of a viewer's time...
...parietal hour report consisted of timid equivocations. One of the few reports worthy of being mimeographed, a study of language instruction at Harvard, was prepared entirely by persons not on the Council. The room rent report was obsolete before it was published, and the Tenth House study was too shallow to be valuable. Fittingly, the Council, at its last meeting, rejected the bulky Executive Committee Report because of vague construction, faulty proposals, insufficiently supported arguments, and narrow scope...
Director Risi reveals the shallow, lonely aspects of Bruno's life poignantly yet comically. Long separated from his wife, Bruno visits his old home for the first time in three years. He dismisses his beautiful young daughter (Catherine Spaak) with advice to go out with younger guys (she deftly defends her aging fiancee: "Marriages of love often don't succeed. I'll go to Harvard to study and work in his research department.") and winds up in his wife's bedroom. Momentarily awakened to the wasted opportunities of the past and the emptiness of the present, he reaches...
...inland sea" just 56 miles from Budapest. A renowned Central European watering spot since the days of the Romans, Balaton is a pleasant place to visit even without the added incentive of reunion. Its delicate wines-such as the Badacsony szurke barat (Grey Friar)-are eminently sippable, and the shallow, turquoise-blue lake, ringed with breezy cafes and villas, has a bright, Mediterranean air about it. Of the 40,000 Western tourists who visited Balaton last season, 60% were Germans...
Best Depth. The rules are remarkably precise. If a shot is placed at too shallow a depth, as Buster Jangle-U. was, it wastes most of its energy on the air. If it is too deep, it lifts a great amount of soil and broken rock, but lets most of the stuff fall back into the crater...