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Word: wonder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vision.' His films are indeed suspiciously clone-like, but 'serious, probing'? By what standards? Well, says Yacowar, Manhattan can be compared with 'Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion, another classic analysis of the decay of western culture.' Oh, and 'like Kafka, Allen makes Jews of us all.' We might wonder just what manner of man this is whose films can unite Kafka and Renoir. Yacowar has his answers...

Author: By Peter Swaab, | Title: Academia Meets The Loser | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

...didn't the Iranians invade the Mexican embassy when the Shah was in Mexico? I wonder why they waited till now before taking action? Could it be that it's still faddish to trash U.S. embassies and terrorize the inhabitants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Iran's Revenge | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...clothes, the high point, of course, of all her movies. So it seems a shame to place her in the lugubrious context of a picture like The Divine Nymph. The film is yet another period piece, this time set in Italy during the 1920s. One be gins to wonder if the people who produce Antonelli's movies are under the impression that so lush a lady simply cannot be accepted in a contemporary context. Or it may be that her oddly innocent air prevents them from seeing her as representative of a more modern sexuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Glum Gavotte | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Rogowitz and Cohen said they feared the preliminary hearing on the case might not come until January. "If that is true, it really makes me wonder about the Rent Board's commitment to enforcing this law," City Councilor-elect David Sullivan, who drafted the ordinance, said yesterday...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Sumner Rd. Tenants to File Complaint | 12/7/1979 | See Source »

...decade after Apollo, other space motifs also abound. Battlestar Galactica cruisers must have caused problems at some point--each bears a red label announcing "Redesigned Toy-Missiles Cannot Be Launched." Kind of makes you wonder...

Author: By Bill Mckibben, | Title: Suckerman and His Friends | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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