Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems the more you like sports, the more times you have to suffer with teams that just miss out, games that are just lost on fluke plays, and coaches that just shake their heads and wonder...
...funny thing is that it's nobody's fault. It's not one play in one game or anything like that. It's a combination of things that are so intangible all you can do is look back and wonder "Why the heck aren't we celebrating tonight...
...York reporter. But underneath his not-so-mild-mannered facade, he was the greatest superhero of all, vulnerable to only one substance: Cronkite. And Brinkley was alone. All the other superheroes were dead or useless. Snoopy was missing in action after the Red Baron finally shot him down. Wonder Woman was working for Ms. Magazine. Captain Mantra was in a suburban sanitarium, after swearing off the use of his superpowers when he witnessed the death of his sister Mary. An Amtrak train obliterated her after Dr. Spock bound and gagged her on the tracks...
...reader is almost certain that Mayer is basically writing a comedy but inserting an obligatory, though sincere, political statement. On the other hand, one cannot help but wonder if the righteous reformer reading the book is the ultimate patsy. Maybe Mayer would laugh if he thought someone was actually trying to discover a message between the onslaught of one-liners. Yet it does not really matter. The humor may drag occasionally, particularly during the intergalactic battle scenes. The intentionally hackneyed plot might vanish periodically. But Superfolks, political or apolitical, is still a very funny book. Even Lord Nietzsche would have...
Providence. Alain Resnais has always trafficked exclusively in cinematographic style and psychological complexities, and many find his work inaccessible, or pretentious, or both. But if the intellectual and the self-consciously artsy in the film so not automatically put you off, this movie is a wonder. It revolves around a belligerently dying writer, played by John Gielgud, and the elaborate world of dreams, nightmares and artistic fantasies through which he carries out his suspicions, guilt jealousy and resentment toward his family. Gielgud's son, who is his fantasmagoria becomes a monstrously callous and emotionless lawyer and husband, is played with...