Word: tinseled
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...Ravel's Bolero on Billboard's Top Forty. Yet before reviving The Pink Panther, Edwards sired a series of flops that turned Hollywood against him. No longer able to make films on the West Coast, Edwards produced the Panther series in Europe. From the height of his knowledge about Tinsel Town, Edwards, with all credibility now restored, takes a pot shot at Hollywood--the angry gesture, it would seem, of a much maliened...
Edwards' script follows the pattern of his direction. He strikes on target at the beginning, setting up his figures to be knocked into the dust. The shadow that Tinsel Town casts on the lives of his characters, the absurd system of priorities that makes an angry man quote box office figures to his wife in the heat of the argument: These are the moments when Edwards nears his goal. Once the focus shifts to Farmer alone, the tone of the film becomes skewed, strained. The film cannot survive on its own, when it's not pontificating on the medium...
Initially, some of the demonstrators struggled with the 15 officers and postal inspectors, who stood at the top of the steps, over the placement of the trees, some of which still had Christmas tinsel hanging from their branches...
AVERT YOUR EYES, just briefly, from the tinsel and the lights, And on fair Harvard's president one moment turn your sight. Ensconced in deepest labor within Massachusetts Hall He stares at open letters, then stares long at the wall. The radicals are in Law School, divestiture is dead, Christmas is approaching, and Bok should be abed. He struggles against sleepiness, he fumbles for a pen He picks his head up off the desk and down it falls again...
...alluded without subtlety to his career in Hollywood: "Ronald Reagan in Il Presidente." During the months before the election, many leaders around the world, including friends of the U.S. as well as its enemies, held the same scathing view of Reagan as being as flashy and light as Hollywood tinsel. But now that he has been elected, some are taking a second and much more hopeful look at him as President. Said the conservative West German newspaper Die Welt: "Confronted with political reality, President Reagan might show more flexibility than he did as a candidate...