Word: sunniest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...judge the man by the play, Neil Simon has to be decidedly schizophrenic -something that is highly improbable. Act I of Chapter Two contains the sunniest romantic sequences of the wooing of a woman by a man that Simon has ever written. Act II contains some husband-and-wife bloodletting that Edward Albee might have thought of when he was writing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
Most of their adventures are like the weak-kneed camel that accompanies the pair: too tame. Even the sunniest tale needs an undertone of true menace to capture a child's imagination, as Disney in his early years rarely forgot. Here, in the movie's signature tune, Raggedy Ann sings that she's "just a rag dollie, happy and smiling all day." Fond, foot-tapping parents may tell themselves that this is enough. Kids know better...
...example) but his pictures exude a creative excitement that seems to say to the pedestrian studio craftsman, "Well boys, here's a little trick you might pick up on." The opening of Love Me Tonight, the slow rousing waking of a city from sleep, is one of the sunniest, most cheerful and nonchalant pieces of virtuousity you're likely to find anywhere. Mamoulian is witty too--his "Isn't It Romantic" sequence of mounting musical numbers mocks a cinematic tradition that was still in its infancy when Love Me Tonight was made. Rodgers and Hart, seemingly inexhaustibly prolific, wrote...
...Locust," No hopes for Tony C. could hold this crowd much longer--school was out, as far as they were concerned, and even in the year of busing and boycotts I guess that called for something special. Admission to the ballpark, at least...no pretzel vendor, not even the sunniest Opening Day sky, was going to hold them out in the street much longer...
Cobden put the argument at its sunniest: "If the minority are discontented with the existing state of things, let them set to work and exert themselves until they become the majority." Fine, unless a minority is of a different race, religion or culture, and has no hope of be coming a majority. Then there must either be continual friction, as in Northern Ireland or Cyprus, or else a guarantee of protected minority rights that a majority cannot overturn. John C. Calhoun believed the South to be such a permanent minority in need of protection. So he argued for a "concurrent...