Word: solemnizations
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Coma is the worst major film to appear this year, and without a doubt the most offensive. Director Michael Crichton '64 uses operations to keep the audience on its toes, and since the movie is devoid of humor there's nothing to relieve the tension. It's so solemn and literal-minded that it makes The Exorcist look positively expressionistic. Richard Widmark plays the head of a Boston hospital where young, healthy patients keep going into unexplained comas during routine operations. When he explains why he's doing it--the unimportance of the individual compared with the advancement of science...
...four later, "is like giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a corpse." The fiery consecration sermon by the Rev. George Rutler of Rosemont, Pa., compared the new bishops to Moses for leading their people out of the Episcopal Egypt. After a service of nearly three hours, the solemn congregation burst into applause as the resplendently robed and mitered clergymen were declared to be bishops...
...bowing out. There are no greener pastures open to 4-18 coaches, however, so Pancoast turned down the offer. Said he: "I'm the head coach of Vanderbilt until I'm told otherwise." Vanderbilt President Emmett Fields backed Pancoast, asserting that the university would not break a solemn contract...
These players, all of whom won either the Open or the PGA prior to 1970, are incensed because they believe that the exemption that accompanied their prize money was part of a solemn contract that is now being retroactively broken. As of this year these old-timers will be required to play in at least 15 tournaments and earn at least $10,000 per season to maintain their exemptions. For a septagenarian such as Sarazen, it is well-nigh impossible to meet such "performance guidelines...
...writes it down for use by some character in his play (called, appropriately enough, Deathtrap). Outlining the plot, which follows closely the plot of the play we're watching, he concedes that the first scene will probably be "heavy and stilted," and when his colorless wife launches into a solemn, didactic monologue about why their marriage hasn't worked, he cuts her short with, "We get the gist of this passage." Well, we do get the gist of that passage, and the first scene is heavy and stilted, and all that this charming self-deprecation means is that Levin...