Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second half, he handed his shooting touch to Pyatt, who proceeded to reel off 20 points via a 7-10 field-goal performance and six successful foul shots without a miscue. Stokes ended up as the game's leading scorer with 28 points, while Pyatt finished with...
...Neumiller family, beginning with great-grandfather, and continuing through three more generations to the contemporary great-grandchildren, recounts the disintegration of a family in the Midwest. The great-grandfather made his living as a farmer, his son was an honest farmer, and whenever members of the succeeding generations lose touch with themselves, they return to the land and the honest work there...
Kolzak's Miss Lonelyhearts also boasts an inventive set, which places the newsroom squarely in the center of a hopelessly corrupt world. Period music between scenes, another nice touch, reinforces the '30's flavor of the show...
Throughout the nitwit action, one notes what might be called a typically Gallic touch: even in the furthest extremities, Belmondo remains modishly tailored. This causes problems. Tapered trousers make it difficult to get a leg up, and boots with high heels cause any flatfoot to slip and slide on the fabled Paris roofs. It could be said that the only genuine suspense The Night Caller has to offer is whether the leading man will split his pants...
...Street) handles all his vignettes dryly, distantly, without the slightest excess of emotion. Normally such discipline, especially in an age of over wrought movies, would be a matter for applause. In a film that is so predictable, however, a little excess is called for. We need to feel a touch of genuine desperation in this slum or of craziness in the behavior of its inhabitants. Some how the Duddy Kravitz ambience has been infused with the spirit of Walton's Mountain, and the result is a bland respectability−safe, pleasant, without reverberation...