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Word: filmgoer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1971-1971
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...that Irene Worth is especially good as Goneril, the oldest and ugliest daughter. Then, too, Alan Webb sensitively portrays the Duke of Gloucester, whose eyes are gouged out with stomach-churning realism. But the instantaneous afterthought is that though these actors have done absolutely superb work onstage, a filmgoer who sees only films would never guess it from this Lear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: King Blear | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

...Kirk decide to go for their guns in a bullring conveniently located at the edge of town. Tickets will be sold, faster gun takes the proceeds. The spectators in the bullring may get a lot for their money, but the movie's trick shock ending thoroughly flimflams the filmgoer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cash on the Line | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

...lower depths" for the upper and middle classes. There hasn't been a decent manual laborer since, not even in Five Easy Pieces, which made the only repressed figure an ex-concert pianist. Even Brando's heroic dockworker from On the Waterfront would be a welcome addition to current filmgoer; though the enemy in that film was a crooked union (read in Kazan's anti-communism) and the force of good a priest (read in the moral order of liberal America); at least Terry Mullow was a full human being who had a culture of his own and thought about...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Shoestring Humanism | 1/15/1971 | See Source »

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