Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that all that school spirit and pride is nothing but a crock. You don't go for that rah-rah stuff. You're above that. But when Yale wins The Game, the tailgating is not as good. And when you go to a cocktail party and someone is raving about B.U.'s hockey program, your stomach starts to turn. And, God, when Ed King beats The Duke and the man stands up there before all of us singing "For Boston," it's enough to make one vomit. You can take the boy out of the arena...
...script, weaving disparate elements into a ripe, dreamlike whole. The film opens in the slapstick manner of a cartoon, then evolves seamlessly into a bucolic Renoir romance. In the second half, Blier stages chase scenes, a benign car crash and a farcical kidnaping-the larky stuff of American screwball comedy. The film's stylized denouement, shot around a wintry mansion, is a surrealist's spooky intimation of tragedy. But even when invoking death, Handkerchiefs is no cause for gloom. By liberating sex from the political and cultural cant of our time, Blier leaves the audience drunk...
...nodded in sympathy as she said, "I wish the rest of the girls had the spirit to fight this crazy stuff. Look, I don't let it stop me. I go out every day." And she hoisted a little bag of groceries as proof...
...Miami incident ended a career which had been hot on the American rock'n'roll scene for three years, with seven albums, the last of which were bubbly stuff compared to the hard rock'n'ramble energetics for which The Doors--particularly Morrison--had earned the worship of their flock...
...with a wealth of new stuff that couldn't fit on Some Girls languishing on tape somewhere, facing an unfamiliar time urgency (Billy Wyman is 42 and Keith Moon is dead) and a new solo ambition on Richards' part, the Stones have turned to the single as a way to introduce fresh music without the agony of launching an album piggyback on Some Girls. More can probably be expected in the new year...