Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...News about the quality of our orchestras seems to take a long time to cross the Atlantic. Your story [April 17] lumps the London Symphony together with other London orchestras as being "sound, if occasionally lackluster." I have searched in vain through our press cuttings for the last two years to discover when and whether a critic has called the playing of the London Symphony "lackluster," but instead I discovered hundreds of enthusiastic press comments, such as the [London] Times's comment last year: "Let there be no mistake about it; the London Symphony is one of the world...
...mysterious female accomplice of the jewel thief that he wants to nab. Some of Sellers' sight gags are funny, but not funny enough to keep this over-waxed comedy from schussing steadily downhill at the recherche Italian ski resort where Panther's high-priced actors search in vain for a lift...
Finney's performance as a charming, arrogant, boyish, vain and remorseless killer almost justifies redoing the film. But Producer-Director Karel Reisz errs in trying to update the melodrama with an overdose of back-to-the-womb psychology. The motherless Finney washes away dark deeds by splashing in a pond or immersing himself right up to the nostrils in a nice warm tub. In one embarrassingly childish sequence, he regresses almost to the toddler stage. The camera pays more attention to Finney's tortured mental processes than to the all-important hatbox. The new Night trades a real...
...here that the twists take place--these stock characters have taken on new characteristics. Control is no ruthlessly efficient genius, but a pompous, vain bureaucrat who "always likes to be in on a good thing." Lemas has his bureaucratic side too, and he too is proud, often petty, knowing that he is working for a ruthless machine, but unwilling to stop...
...Senior dreams of his typist, a nimble lass who will probably leave out a paragraph or forget the carbon. Or, worst of all, he tosses with the dream of the Great Confrontation, the dream where he passes through life talking to friends, making love, delivering speeches, always searching in vain for the appropriate quote from his intensive study of the complete works of Hamlin Garland...