Word: manfully
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Almost to a man, store managers report a decline in sales of expensive items like jewelry and furs and a shift to cheaper and more practical gifts like electric hair combs and digital clocks. In Manhattan, Lord & Taylor advertised a selection of gifts-nothing over $8. Georg Jensen's found that normally fast-moving $1,500 jewelry was being passed up in favor of the $25-to-$125 variety. "The best-known store in Texas has dropped from its popular Christmas catalogue the traditional tips on "How to spend a million dollars at Neiman-Marcus...
...LOVE MY WIFE is just about what you'd expect from the author of Getting Straight and the director of If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium: a limp, adolescent, pseudo-hip study of the comic agonies of an unhappily married contemporary man. Elliott Gould, of course, is the star, and he shuffles through the cretinous proceedings with the guilty look of someone who has been through it all so many times before that he should know better. I Love My Wife is the kind of assembly-line candy bar movie that induces in an audience rage...
HOMER is a well-intentioned film about a young man's growing intolerance for his parents, his home town and his life in Middle America. Too often the script is predictable, the situations pure pasteboard. But Director John Trent has a subtle feeling for the nuances of small-town life, and scenes such as a going-away party for a Viet Nam-bound soldier are filled with a sense of quiet poetry that might have pleased Sherwood Anderson. In the cast are Tisa Farrow, Mia's preternaturally sensual younger sister, and (as Homer) a robust young actor named...
FOOLS are two leftovers from A Thousand Clowns. The girl has changed from Barbara Harris to Katharine Ross, but the man remains Jason Robards. Once again he plays the crumpled buffoon, out of step with society, delivering loud, whimsical broadsides against such well-riddled targets as the Establishment, traffic and the FBI. His paramour is 25 years his junior, and her attachment for such a droning bore may be ascribed to callowness or to a classic Electra complex. But she is still the dream-child of The Graduate and the only visible excuse for an overblown farce that collapses into...
...twelve, Dickens was yanked from school and put to work there while his father and the rest of the family went into debtors' prison. So traumatic was his sense of shock and abandonment that although the experience lasted no more than five months, as a grown man he still would burst into tears whenever he found himself back in the neighborhood...