Word: soured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is one sour note for the hoopsters as they head into the big weekend. Co-Captain Anne Kelly sprained an ankle in practice yesterday afternoon. The availability of the junior guard will not be known until later today, but Delaney Smith said the outlook is not good...
...left with the sour feeling that Harvard was much more concerned with finding an easy way out of a sticky controversy than it was with tackling the real problems raised by Safran's actions...
Perhaps it is sour grapes to argue with the pervasive sense of fun and abandon that characterizes Holmes and has been the hallmark of Spielberg's past work. To his credit, Spielberg has not asked to be taken seriously as an artist and he delivers entertainment and good will like no one since Frank Capra. But movies like Holmes scream nouveau riche. There is never room for understatement, never a scene or effect down-played. Everything must be the most expensive, the most elaborate. Spielberg has always been exhausting to watch, but never emotionally fulfilling. How can we care about...
Berndt attributes grumblings about his student-athletes to "sour grapes," citing the fact that in his four-plus years in Philadelphia only two Penn football players have failed to earn a degree...
...easily view the remainder of the film without further brain activity. This is as much for the benefit of the audience as for the actors, for Commando does not offer much in the way of development. Schwarzenegger portrays a two-dimensional cardboard cutout capable only of delivering sour one-liners comprising nothing more than the most basic of sentence constructions punctuated by several hundred rounds of automatic weapons' fire. Despite the assistance provided by the visual aids, it is readily apparent that Arnold would have problems acting his way out of a light covering of aluminum foil...