Word: soft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough being an older woman in our society without being damned by the faint praise of this entirely fatuous, Canadian-made, soft-core film. Based on a novel by Stephen Vizinczey, it traces the romantic career of a youth (Tom Berenger) from his teen-age sexual initiation (by Karen Black, who betrays a certain nervousness in this comedown role) through various tedious amatory escapades with a number of older women. Some of them, despite the title and the falteringly worldly tone of the picture, actually treat him quite badly. This seems only fair, since he is himself either callous...
...best soft-core extravaganza in Los Angeles. There sits Actor Lee Marvin, 55, squirming at times as he plays an unaccustomed courtroom scene, his rasping familiar voice sometimes fading so softly that the judge has to urge him to speak up. Just a few feet away sits the woman who is the cause of his troubles: Michelle Triola Marvin, 46, petitely Rubenesque, who took the actor's last name but who never was married to him -and that is just the point. She is suing Marvin on the grounds that she is entitled to get up to half...
...this time, the boulder had become the star attraction of Southern California. Rock watchers came chuffing up in running suits and shower shoes. Others paddled to the scene in kayaks. Cars blocked the highway for miles. Catering wagons rolled in with sandwiches and soft drinks...
...remain weak for a variety of reasons: a surfeit of $600 billion in greenbacks is sloshing around the world as a result of inflationary excesses; foreign governments are weary of spending their own currency to support the beleaguered buck; and foreign moneymen think that America's leadership is soft and uncertain...
Hancock delivers a petrifyingly smooth and solid disc with the pace of a pendulum and an impressive array of moods. "Trust Me," a soft and easily flowing track incorporated his genius on the keyboards and his synthesized voice. To illuminate the backup vocals, a factor many other artists ignore. Hancock relies upon the Four Waters. The Four Waters isn't the name of a quartet, but rather a way to describe the vocal ebb and flow of brothers Oren and Luther Waters and their wives Julia and Maxine. The stunning vitality of their voices sounds electrifying behind that of Hancock...