Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would, in short, be a damned shame and an insult were Nixon to speak here come next spring. Although we have strongly disagreed with his political views for as long as he has been around, this is not a matter of politics. Nixon represents everything that is morally corrupt about America; to allow him the national attention a Harvard appearance would create serves only to uphold those values...
...does he trivialize marriage and sex for cheap one-liners, but he also manages to plunder the social history of three decades. In Slade's hands, even the Viet Nam War is a cue for hokey costume gags and mechanical changes of dramatic pace. The man has no shame...
...Verbruggen is proved right, that will make the game unusual, if not here, at least in the U.S. in general. Injuries-the annual toll of broken bones, torn ligaments, concussion and, occasionally, paralysis or death-are football's current shame. This fall, a million high school boys will be injured playing football. Most will suffer minor muscle pulls; others will walk the rest of their lives on aching knees. A few will die. While Pleasant Valley and Palmerton are playing in Pennsylvania, a 16-year-old boy in Oklahoma dies of head injuries en route to the hospital during...
...That's a shame, because there are some impressive performances here. Holly Sargent, as the ingenue-secretary who sets her heart on cornering a certain climbing executive for a march to the altar, blends just the right amounts of innocence and calculation, and throws in a decent singing voice, to boot. Thomas Baldridge plays the young-exec-on-the-make a bit too cloyingly--there are times when you want to rough him up a little for being too smarmy, and not nearly charming enough--but still manages a strong performance. And honors for a show-stopping effort...
...exercise in egomania, Paradise Alley almost puts Barbra Streisand's A Star Is Born to shame. Besides starring in the film, Stallone wrote the script (from his own novel, no less), directed it and sings the theme song. The plot, far too structurally ambitious for a novice director, is a cynical attempt to cash in on every '40s movie cliche not used in Rocky and most of those that were. Set in 1946, the story tells of three downtrodden brothers who dream of breaking out of Manhattan's impoverished Hell's Kitchen: a lame World...