Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOVES OF A BLONDE, the outstanding hit of this year's New York Film Festival, is a delightful Czech comedy written and directed by 34-year-old Miloś Forman. Slight but abrim with humorous insights, Blonde observes what happens when a pudding-faced pretty from a small town succumbs to a callow young piano player and follows him to his home in Prague...
...change were clear to younger men. When Byrd retired and had his son, Harry Jr., 51, named to fill his Senate seat, he was criticized by Virginians for perpetuating his political dynasty. Young Harry markedly tempered his philosophy, is campaigning as a moderate, modern Democrat. He is considered a slight favorite to win on Nov. 8. And such is the continuing magnetism of the Byrd name that Harry Jr. will undoubtedly attract thousands of votes from Virginians who proudly uphold the memory, if not all the convictions, of Rosemont's old squire...
Hardin looks very much like Walt Hewlett -- the Crimson harrier sensation whose records Hardin is now shattering. Looking at him, you'd never guess he was a jock. He is slight, bespectacled, and looks a little undernourished. His clothes hang on him. He can't quite fill them...
...rather shrill editorial introduction and the back cover ("The Boston Review is on the MOVE... Hasta la vista, sista) suggests that magazines should either say a great deal about themselves or very little; BR hasn't yet chosen between tendenz and taciturnity. When the magazine recovers from a slight touch of editorialisis, and develops a group of contributors that is distinctly its own, it will, in fact, be on the move. Hasta la vista, Charley. And Ferg, in particular...
...Crimson harriers still aren't completely healthy. Captain Jim Baker has a troublesome ankle. Bill Stempson has a slight cold. Joe Ryan is not feeling so great. And Dick Howe is sick...