Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Krypton and Kansas, for instance, are in dead earnest, with a strong overlay of spiritualism and Christian symbolism. The tone shifts abruptly when the action moves to Metropolis, which, along with evil, abounds with sight gags and fast back chat. Luthor adds still another tone, that of high camp, somewhat reminiscent of TV's old Batman serial. On their own, the Luthor scenes are funny, but they almost seem to have been brought in by mistake from another movie...
...thinkers have believed that in manners, even in the most frivolous gestures of a culture, they could detect its hidden tectonics and tendencies. The German scholar Norbert Elias, in a magisterial 1936 work called The Civilizing Process, argued that man's "progress" in manners from the intimate and even somewhat disgusting communalism of the Middle Ages to the fastidious individualism of the Renaissance and beyond brought about an unwholesome estrangement of people from one another; they became ashamed, as they were not before, of their smells, their bodies...
Missing three fencers from last year's A-1 quartet due to graduation, the Crimson women had little chance to test their new mettle against the inept, unskilled Rhodies. As Captain Kathy Lowry discovered after a somewhat sluggish start in the opening bout of the match, easy victories required no more than straightforward quick lunges with no fakes...
...Christina not write her book when her mother was alive to defend herself? "The story was not yet finished," she replies, somewhat disingenuously. "I had no idea how it would end." Many of Joan's friends, some of whom confirm the basic facts of Christina's grim tale, are nonetheless sorry that it ended this way. "I cried when I read the book," says one of them, Screenwriter Leonard Spigelgass. "But I really cried for Joan. There is an absolute nausea among her friends in learning these things...
...usual in Avildsen's work, the direction is on the nose, with no discomfiting originality to disturb audiences. The veteran Sorvino knows enough to be somewhat hangdog about what he is called upon to do, but Ditchburn is too new to the game to be even slightly humiliated by all this nonsense. They meet somewhere in the middle of mediocrity to form their little ensemble. It is a measure of just how careless the raptures of cynicism are that Avildsen tries to pass off an ancient Newark concert hall as Lincoln Center, which it in no way resembles...