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...thought, says Hellman sharply, "that nobody could buy her. She was wrong: they could and did for years." It is a rather sad irony that the book should be called Pentimento, an artist's term for an old image that reappears through later repainting done on a canvas. Singular and moving memories flicker everywhere, but few emerge clearly...
...Clyde's humor, excitement and sense of fatefulness are woefully absent. Milius, who also wrote the script, creates no real characters, only targets. He has two surpassing leading actors: Warren Gates as Dillinger and Ben Johnson as the G-man who finally does him in. His most singular accomplishment is that he manages to make them both look...
...yard aquatic domain throughout the year, established himself as the premier swimmer in the Harvard fleet of standout mermen. Yntema, who ignored with an indifferent composure the frenetic excitement of Harvard's drive to a share of the Eastern League swimming title, eyeing with an unvarying determination his singular objective, refusing to be distracted for the vaguest moment by the hullabaloo swirling around him as Harvard achieved swimming parity and superiority for the first time in over a decade, keeping his head when all around him were losing theirs in the excultance of success, refusing to shave down for even...
...rest of the album, though. My connections with the Beach Boys are tenuous; really only a group of friends who, juiced, are wont to slobber through "ba-ba-ba-ba-barbara ann." I've always felt a little sorry for the Beach Boys, because it is their singular misfortune to represent rock at its nadir, the post-payola early sixties. I've also resented the fact that they managed to ride surf music, that most dubious of forms, to fame and fortune. They don't do that sort of thing any more. Brian Wilson can't hear well enough...
...miles and years, a certain nostalgia began inching its way into memory like a balm. In recent years several entertainments have distilled that nostalgia-The Last Picture Show, for example, and the Broadway musical Grease. But none have had the vigor and precision of American Graffiti. This superb and singular film catches not only the charm and tribal energy of the teen-age 1950s but also the listlessness and the resignation that underscored it all like an incessant bass line in one of the rock-'n'-roll songs of the period...