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Word: vile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes full advantage. Tony Abatemarco's General Ivolgin, Michael Gury as his healthy and Jack Gilpin his tubercular sons are effective both singly and as a divided family, just as Geralyn Williams and Eleanor Lindsay, Madamae Yepenchin and Aglaya, form anice bourgeois setpiece Josh Rubins is hilarious and vile as the obnoxious Lebedev...

Author: By Michael Sragew, | Title: Idiots | 12/2/1972 | See Source »

...juxtaposes anachronistic speech with Brooklyn slang. and intersperses flowery phrasings with punchy and often vile lines. The comedy is similar to the Firesign Theatre's Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers. Like the Firesign Theatre, the best of Allen's humor comes down to playing with words...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee iii, | Title: Giving Dr. Reuben the Finger | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...recall Pres. Eliot riding his bicycle around the streets. (No autos in those days). Once in the Phillip's Brook House Pres. Eliot asked me about my major subjects. I told him Chemistry. He replied that I would have to get used to vile smells...

Author: By Henry D. Colton, | Title: COMMENCEMENT RETURNS | 7/18/1972 | See Source »

Satyricon--A vile Fellini phantasmagoria based on Petronius but lacking the wit and lightness of the epicurean's touch. With Marat Sade, Peter Brook's sensational and sensationalistic production of the finally incoherent Peter Weiss play. CINEMA 733 (Thurs. and Fri.) Call 266-0342 for times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 7/18/1972 | See Source »

Paisan. Rosssellini's classic neo-realist film of post-World War II. Allied occupation of Italy. With Socrates, made by the Italian master for French TV (a Boston premiere). CENTRAL SQUARE CINEMA II. Paisan: 8:05, Socrates: 6, 10. Portnoy's Complainst. A vile reduction of the mythically pornographic Philip Roth novel about a successful Jewish lawyer and civil libertarian who couldn't help privately pulling his putz. Gone is the gloriously-guilt-ridden self-consciousness of the main character, replaced with the smirk of writer-producer-director Ernest Lehman. PI ALLEY, continuous every two hours from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 7/14/1972 | See Source »

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