Word: downward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavies have been class one up to now and there is little reason to assume that they won't continue to pull up the curve. It's a different story for the lights, who have been burning the midnight oil this week in an attempt to reverse the downward trend of the last two hourlies...
...like Jerome Kern's "Can't Help Loving That Man of Mine," and Leonard Bernstein could claim at least a one per cent royalty. But the best music is Barklay's own and sprightly. The lyrics rise and dip, more to Appalachian than Olympic heights and similarly on the downward scale. The choreography is mostly precise and beautifully executed, especially a magnificent number called, "Raising Your Spirits," in which a line of ersatz dames in devil suits (a genre for which I myself have always had a soft spot) tap in regiment behind clouds of stage smoke. Now that...
...movie is how Wallach, within a few hackneyed lines, manages to create a character. But after he spreads some suspicions and turns up a body, the film makers take him off the case. He and his very human rationality are left far behind as the film spirals downward through blood, perversity, communion with the damned and pseudoreligious mumbo jumbo...
...Ingmar Bergman looks like a Levine caricature of himself. His face is a series of exaggerated downward thrusts-from the sloping hooded lids of his gray eyes to the long beaked nose and long chin. Although usually smiling and pleasant, he demands exact preparation and painstaking orderliness. He is on a first-name basis with each member of his German crew, and they with him. Hand-picked as the best film technicians in Germany, they both fear and adore the Swedish director...
Viewers who find this response funny will be able to bounce along cheerfully with Fun with Dick and Jane. Dick and Jane Harper (George Segal and Jane Fonda) have been rudely awakened from the American dream. They find that downward mobility squeezes the middle class as much as upward mobility does. They are denied the legalistic safety nets of the rich, and they lack the street smarts to cut themselves in on such benefits of the poor as unemployment pay and food stamps. Since they are hopelessly overqualified for any available honest job, they turn to dishonest work. They begin...