Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GRADUATE. Mike Nichols' second screen effort begins as genuine comedy, but soon degenerates into spurious melodrama, although Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross 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...
...well-trained batmen. The setup is anything but escape-proof, but there they stay, having a lovely war, unable to agree on a plan because all have identical rank. Private Frigg, escape artist extraordinary, is summoned to spring the goldbricking generals by getting himself captured, and is given a spurious spot promotion that will enable him to give them orders...
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...