Word: upping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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So, what we get is the Allen persona of all his films, at least up to Annie Hall--ingratiatingly awkward and insecure, morbid, conscientious; intellectual and only saved from pseudo-intellectualism because his sidekicks are transparently far more pompous and shallow. Above all, he's acutely aware of all these...
He gets away with it because his only distinctive talent is that he tells jokes extremely well. (Though he's a dreadful actor, embarassing when he's not laughing at something or other.) This is where he's been so lucky with Diane Keaton, who's a decent enough actress...
At once massively narcissistic and entirely cowardly, Allen is everywhere, but almost never filmed alone in close-up. He's never shown in solitude (though often oh so wrenchingly alone.) It's his privilege to make fun of himself (so that by a sleight-of-hand he accepts the contempt...
'Allen deflates romantic rhetoric by pointing up the embarassing vulnerability of the flesh.'
COTTON BOWL: Nebraska (10-1) vs. Houston (10-1)--Southwest Conference runner-up Texas may be ten times more exciting than conference champ Houston, but the Cougars get the job done. Nebraska is big, fast and strong, but they lost to Oklahoma. Houston 20, Nebraska 7.