Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Otis's senior counselors, Brad and Lester, have more realistic grips on reality, but are indulgent enough never to pop their employer's fantasy bubble. They watch but they do not touch. The junior counselor, Tyler, in his first year at Edgewater, is downy, gangly and innocent. One would think that his fall would be the main tension of the play and one would be wrong...
...once does this slightly preposterous histriography descend to boffo-ness. With a less surrealistic touch Borowczyk maintains the same tenor of classy send-up that Bunuel attained throughout most of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Dissected a bit more, the whole business might be interpreted as a restless and repressed Victorian fantasy. But let's refrain from spoiling with pretentious theories a film that makes such good fun of its own pretentious style. Call Story of Sin a paean to romanticism in reverse. And take with a grain of salt its subject matter: the exquisite fruitness...
...Sleeping Murder, Christie (1 last week) 2-Trinity, Uris(2) 3-Slapstick, Vonnegut (6) 4-Storm Warning, Higgins (3) 5-Dolores, Susann (5) 6-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (4) 7-Ordinary People, Guest (7) 8-Blue Skies, No Candy, Greene (8) 9-Ceremony of the Innocent, Ca/dweff 10-Wednesday the Rabbi Got Wet, Kerne/man...
...Brown took advantage of this final break and scored its fourth touch-down to produce a final score which in no way indicates the closeness of the game...
...always been the inactive body of top-notch students that it now is. Imported to Harvard from William and Mary in 1781, Phi Beta Kappa was originally an awesome secret society with rituals like those of the ancient Mayans. Along with shocking spiritual rites, the society acquired a touch of the commercial during the early 1920s. A complete display of post cards, novelties and souvenirs were sold at the cigar counter in the clubhouse, and during the baseball season, scores were posted daily in the luxurious club rooms...