Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ramones themselves--bird-like Joey, Johnny with the hair over his eyes, and the other two--steal this scene, and the others they're in. They come across as comical, friendly, even beneficent, despite the leather and fake frozen sneers. A full-fledged Ramones movie starring the band--a sort of latter-day Hard Day's Night--would have made a lot more sense than what director Allan Arkush has given...
...ciel is one of the biggest climaxes in a score that sometimes seems to be nothing but climaxes. But Verdi and Librettist Arrigo Boito knew that after the massive choral scene in Act III, enough was enough. Hence the rightness of the subdued, wistfully melancholy fourth act, a sort of spacious postlude. This act is Desdemona's great moment. Soprano Gilda Cruz-Romo made the most of it, although in the earlier acts her singing had somewhat lacked color and shading. Poignant and dignified, she spun out the Willow Song and Desdemona's final prayer in long, crystalline...
...inexperienced signal-caller. But Buchanan no longer is a fill-in: he is the man. And he could have used a nice, easy, non-League game this week to get a feel for the Harvard attack. The Harvard team in general could have used a breather, to regroup and sort out the upheaval caused by the loss of starting senior quarterback Burke St. John, out indefinitely with knee ligament damage...
...solve the problem of compressing seven dull years into a coherent, suspenseful story, possibly because he, and Actor Savage, cannot find a way to turn Hettinger into a sympathetic person, or even an articulate one. The Onion Field is a serious and most uncompromising movie. It lacks, however, the sort of disciplined craft that might have made it a powerful and affecting...
...differences with platitudinous generalizations. Quite uncharacteristically, the Premier made a scorching one-hour speech?at the express direction of Mao, he said?declaring that our approach was unacceptable. The communique had to set forth fundamental differences; otherwise the wording would have an "untruthful appearance." Our present draft was the sort of banality the Soviets would sign but neither mean nor observe...