Word: sillier
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...well with a Dickensian orphanage and Trevor Howard, as a hearty English squire, who, upon hearing his newborn baby cry, instantly rushes into the room to give the infant a hiding so that early on he will appreciate the value of stoicism. Feldman has a keen eye for the sillier conventions of movie narrative...
...order to enjoy this film one must accept the idea that it is essentially no sillier to climb the world's highest mountain in order to ski down a few thousand feet than it is to climb to the summit in order to plant your country's flag there. Neither is a useful or sensible activity, but both have a certain absurd grandeur about them...
Lardy Cherubs. But the exhibition includes whole roomfuls of provinciality, grading down to junk. No 17th century European painter could possibly have produced a sillier work than José Antolinez's trio of lardy, simpering cherubs posing as The Christian Soul Torn Between Vice and Virtue. No matter...
...customs seem to be loosening up in a rather healthy way. The sillier, automatic practices are giving way to a standard of simple courtesy on the part of both men and women. Many women eliminate the problem by simply moving first, opening their own doors, striking their own matches, wrestling on their own coats before men have the chance to intercept them. The other day, a man held open a door for Betty Friedan and then apologized, saying, "I hope you don't mind." Said Friedan: "I love it. I would have held it open...
...easy; Altman evades the trap of defining America. Indeed, in making Nashville, he jettisoned (with a couple of exceptions that mar the film) the last obstacle to making a purely descriptive movie: he junked the concept of the filmmaker himself. Opal, the BBC reporter, busily chronicling American and acting sillier than the Nashvilleans, is a parody of Altman. And the cookbook critics, trying to get a grip on themselves, string adjectives together searching...