Word: unpleasanter
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On a high, leafy bluff overlooking the Potomac in McLean, Va., just northwest of Washington, is a broad, lovely, 46-acre estate called Merrywood. There, from the time she was 13, Jacqueline Bouvier swam, played tennis, rode her pony and gamboled about. Merrywood is owned by Jackie Kennedy's...
Juster's prose has the wonderful, perceptive quality of Stephen Leacock's best work. His world is filled with motorless cars that go without saying, and synonym buns. There is an island called Conclusions which looks better from a distance and can only be reached by jumping. Though very unpleasant...
Wonderland of Color. But world's fairs are made of more than buildings, however distinguished, and Seattle's is a wonderland of color, movement, illusion and eye-popping exhibits. Built a mile from the central business district on a plot of undeveloped land, it was planned to sit...
A disquiet that has nagged me through the last halfdozen of Bergman's films that I have seen becomes gratingly obvious in this one: his dialogue consists of monotonously pompous sermons and gratuitously unpleasant analyses of the characters within the film. Real people seldom talk to one another this way...
The boisterous saga of Mr. Finney is preceded by a violent, impressionistic travelogue, stridently sound-tracked, in which pastoral Dutch countryside appears as it would to a man being dragged through it by his horse's stirrup--interesting but unpleasant.