Word: tells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporting. For the first time, the other side of the Tet offensive has been released to the much-propagandized public. For the first time, you haven't nailed the armed forces or the Administration to the wall over our policy in Viet Nam. Keep it up and tell it like...
...Almond Tea, I reckon. But ye can't rightly tell. I only come in for the coffee...
...ominous for a homosexual as for an aging woman with its reminder that good looks can fade and desirability diminish. The party thrower (Kenneth Nelson) is a tormented Roman Catholic, undergoing psychoanalysis, who secretly hates himself and makes anti-homosexual quips in the same way that some Jews tell anti-Semitic jokes. Each of his friends has his own hangup. A Negro known as "the queen of spades" suffers rejection because of his unrequited love for a heterosexual white boy. One couple is undergoing an emotional rift: one partner is faithful while the other is promiscuous. There is also...
...Chinoise, the title is a sardonic reference to a girl (Anne Wiazemski, the second Mme. Godard) who fancies herself a China doll. Godard pokes fun at her windy braggadocio and her comrades' pompous planning with numberless nose-thumbing cinematic tricks. Players step out of their roles to tell the camera their biographies. Scenes are interspersed with stills of Alice in Wonderland, pictures of Stalin, shots of comic strips. The director's off-camera voice constantly interrogates his performers, who stop acting to reply. Visually, La Chinoise is almost entirely successful. The rapid shifting of subject matter, the kinetic...
...KAHN JR. were writing this Silhouette of E.J. Kahn Jr., he would begin with an anecdote, probably a funny one. The article would be rich with vignettes--stories friends tell about Kahn, and stories Kahn tells about his friends. Kahn is above all a raconteur...