Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corny and what's serious should appear serious. When I looked at one display of a mightv locomotive dematerialized into a layercake of red and white stripes which visually couldn't make up its mind whether to pull the train or smash the cars behind it, I began to wonder how clear such standards...
...Things are no better in the American Football League. After they barely edged Houston, 20-17, missing three field goals in the process, the A.F.L. Champion San Diego Chargers started looking around for a new place kicker. And whom did they come up with? Ben Agajanian, 45, a toeless wonder (he lost four toes on his kicking foot in an elevator accident) who had bounced around 14 pro teams before retiring for the third time last year...
...spite of these feeble attempts, The Young Lovers is a real stinker. The director, Samuel Goldwyn Jr. (wonder how he got the job?) has evidently seen Jules and Jim; every time Peter Fonda and Sharon Hugueny melt into each other's arms, the air fills with a familiar kind of harps-and-strings music. It's supposed to convey the impression of joyful undergraduate love, but it only conveys the impression that the scene is taking place in the Waldorf Cafeteria...
...other hand, we wonder whether the country could stand four more years of Johnson." With that, and "with great regret," the News boldly came out for neither...
...mildly stimulating. Unhappily, the marriage his movies describe is immoderately dull. She is a rat fink, he is a mouse fink, and their life together is stinking cheese. After inhaling Anatomy of a Marriage (as the films are collectively called) for almost four hours, an audience can only numbly wonder how Cayatte could imagine that two bad movies would make a good...