Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a film which manages to make Raquel Welch goofy and charming? How can a movie where Charlton Heston glides around as a hunched Cardinal Richelieu keep anyone scrawling critical notations in the dark? Objecting to Richard Lester's Musketeers for being a little flabby and shallow would be like condemning another of Lester's pictures, A Hard Day's Night, for having the Beatles mouth the words to a dubbed "I Should Have Known Better"--who cares, when the spirit is so honest and breezy...
...expense of coherence, and metaphors for the sake of metaphors. (On the subject of Pound, he gushes: "His critical tone is quite unself-conscious, at times even incautiously blurty; this tone buoys him up and carries him along swimmingly--until, late in his career, he founders in the shallow rapids of his baby talk.") As the book progresses, the style improves in direct proportion to the content. There are even flickers of ingenuity where Matthews weaves Eliotisms directly yet unobtrusively into the narrative--"Eliot's return to Harvard was (you may say) satisfactory." Lifting most of this line straight...
...compensate for my shallow theoretical background, I played with sheer guts. From a king pawn opening, undertaken on Reinfields's advice, I would launch into an attack trying to win a few pieces. By third grade, I had mastered the rudiments of the knight fork. By fourth grade, I was pondering the implications of the pin. For a while, I met with success--chess became a way for a runt to get back at the world...
...Pool Too Shallow...
...underground tunnels, an underground building is not merely an extension of the tunnel system. Present technology does not allow us to hide a building--a structure below ground will make its presence felt on the ground because of the type of surface it generates and because of a shallow soil layer which cannot support large plant materials. In terms of its interaction with the rest of the Yard, the Pusey Library must be regarded as architectural landscaping rather than as a building which defines the space around it. The library will, however, be "visible;" windows and light wells will give...