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Word: utters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nelligan manages to redeem herself with bombast, Malkovich as her less-than-saintly son is an utter bombastic disappointment. Where Malkovitch was superb in earlier off-beat roles as the photographer in The Killing Fields and the blind boarder in Places in the Heart, his portrayal of Gage is shamefully one-sided and wholly unappealing. Brooding both in his personal and professional lives, he would seem an unlikely candidate for the type of altruistic soul-searching chronicled in the book and the film. Even his rigorous investigative reporting, which includes pulling a gun on his mother's executioner, would seem...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: The Gospel of St. Eleni | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...roundly rejected the prosecution's lurid allegations of foreign, presumably KGB, blackmail against the servicemen for taking part in homosexual activity and sex orgies. As it turned out, much of the evidence in the case was, as one prosecutor put it, "contaminated by half-truths and shot through with utter lies." A Cyprus hotel where a sex party was said to have taken place, for example, had not yet been built at the time of the alleged incident. One of the servicemen was in the Falkland Islands when he was said to have been taking part in the Cyprus orgies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Thrown Out | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...wearing matching punctuation mark sweaters. Philippe's sweater has an exclamation point on it, which defines him perfectly as he rants and raves through the movie as a know-nothing know-it-all. Vincent's sweater, however, bears a question mark because his ranting and raving springs from his utter cluelessness. What a pair...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Testimony Against Men | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

...about BEVERLY HILLS COP (Harvard Square Friday), Eddie Murphy's star vehicle thinly clad in the guise of blood-drenched cop drama about bad people killing good people and good people killing bad people. There is nothing subtle about this movie. In fact, we are so painfully aware of utter disposability of the plot that we wish Murphy would just step out of the screen and dish out his lines stand-up style. If you need to see people kill each other, go hack up your dormmates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scenes of Teens | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

...ride. The story of the Hart campaign was not how he won the New Hampshire primary, but how he failed to take advantage of the electoral groundswell in his favor. The story of Alan Cranston's failure was not his ridiculous one-note (later two-note) campaign, but the utter lack of a constituency for a nuclear freeze...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: An Insider's Election? | 9/19/1985 | See Source »

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