Word: spuriously
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Laurence's bold advertising copy is a lie too-a slick attempt to sell merchandise by creating illusions of spurious wellbeing. As for her husband's building developments, they represent nothing but built-in, functional ugliness. As a man, she concludes, he is just another cipher, an interchangeable part ("Why him rather than anyone else...
...GRADUATE. Mike Nichols' second screen effort begins as genuine comedy, but soon degenerates into spurious melodrama, although Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft do an excellent job as victims of a sophomoric love triangle...
...GRADUATE. Mike Nichols' second screen effort begins as genuine comedy, soon degenerates into spurious melodrama, although Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross do an excellent job as victims of a sophomoric love triangle...
...yield their hypocritical Victorian prejudices, but merely realized that they had clogged the City Jail. The courageous, staunchly libertarian stand taken by the several dozen Harvard students who sold Avatar in the wake of Monday's bust was undoubtedly one of the main reasons the officials compromised their spurious virtue...
...original, likable actor whose bag of monumeital insecurities marks the truly assured comedian. As the vamp, Anne Bancroft is appropriately sly and predatory, and Katharine Ross, as her daughter, possesses one of the freshest new faces in Hollywood. But the screenplay, which begins as genuine comedy, soon degenerates into spurious melodrama. Moreover, Director Nichols, perhaps affected by his stage experience, has given much of the film the closed-in air of a studio set. Like Nichols himself, The Graduate appears to be a victim of the sophomore jinx...