Word: snot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entire Matthews South-Weld South game was played in a persistent drizzle. "The rain really slowed down our offense." said Matthews' Stan Mark, despite his team's production of 33 points. Jim Young described the playing field as "slipperier than snot on a doorknob...
...girls said. "Every move you made and every feeling you had had helped make you what you were now-unacceptable to the world." Another Cliffie described her therapy as "a steel claw tearing open my scabs.... During each session my hands shook and I could taste snot in my mouth." For some there was an irritating sense of disconnection, a feeling that while their parts were being microscopically examined, they were wasting their present lives and shortchanging their futures. "Once someone gave me a CRIMSON," one boy said, "and I was panic-stricken at the thought of all the time...
...Chinoise reduces style to static set-ups and simple tracks ("The tracking snot is a political act," says Jean-Luc mystically); color is stripped largely to the primary range. Both decisions complement the didacticism of the young Parisian Maoists by omitting all but the starkest and most basic cinematic devices, also by reminding us constantly that we're watching a movie. Perversely, the lean movements and bright colors give La Chinoise charm and humor (not, I suspect, two of Godard's favorite critical adjectives) and make its polemicism entertaining...
...girls said. "Every move you made and every feeling you had had helped make you what you were now--unacceptable to the world." Another Cliffie described her therapy as "a steel claw tearing open my scabs . . . . During each session my hands shook and I could taste snot in my mouth." For some there was an irritating sense of disconnection, a feeling that while their pasts were being microscopically examined, they were wasting their present lives and shortchanging their futures. "Once someone gave me a CRIMSON," one boy said, "and I was panic-stricken at the thought of all the time...
...Loeb production is a collection of musical, humorous and choreographical moments with little integrity. It dazzles the eye, but sounds (except for the spirited musical interludes) like the parody of Shakespeare's low comedy in Beyond the Fringe. Masters Puke and Snot, rather than a Master of Art is in charge...