Word: vulgarly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...danger and 2) something big is going on. Finally, of course, unavoidable evidence develops, and we cut to the chase. Alas, Director Colin Higgins has no higher skill in staging action than he does in inventing original comic situations. The most he can manage is some vulgar shock effects and a few Hitchcock ripoffs...
...directed her in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: "She has this strange sexuality, which has the slightest edge of being funky, and this humor." She is the exact opposite of a gently provocative Diane Keaton, much more like a latter-day Judy Holliday (but brassier). Cannon downright dares to be vulgar. Says Buck Henry, co-director (with Beatty) of Heaven Can Wait: "She's successful because she's not afraid to make a fool of herself...
WHEN PEOPLE BECOME cult figures it frequently becomes difficult to separate the usually vulgar behavior and attitudes of their admirers from the quality and meaning of their work. They become engulfed in their popularity; to outsiders, they become obscured by the swarm around them. This phenomenon is particularly true of figures in the world of entertainment, and even more valid when applied to deceased entertainment figures, blurred or overwhelmed by their constantly receding popularity. Still, some of these figures--particularly the true giants of their fields--manage to shine through their haloes, as it were. By their lives, reputations...
...Fogel was the resurgence of student protests this year. "I was brought up in Cambridge," he said. "I would occasionally walk through the Yard and see John Harvard and I felt I was walking on holy ground. When I saw thes people--they had hung an effigy and some vulgar banners on the statue--I thought it was desecration. I thought it was overdoing things...
There is such a hunger for romance, for decent emotions, that people will probably go to see this film despite its vulgar ineptitude. But it is a shame that the romantic spirit should, these days, be the first refuge for the charlatan, the last for honest craftsmen...