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His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
Vincent Canby / Film Critic
Fixed
Forever
Remains
Dates
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[His acting] remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
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Time
Acting
Forever
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Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.
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Environment
Missing
Performers
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We are drawn to Twitter the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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Accidents
Scene
Way
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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April
Scene
Accident
Drawn
Sets
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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Dental
Including
Might
Teeth
Washington
Edge
George
Guaranteed
Wherever
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Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.
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Beautiful
Deals
Scenery
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Connections
Curiosity
Exploits
Fiction
Satisfying
Anything Else
Hack
Making
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The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.
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Cheerful
Shopping
Taste
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She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.
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Roulette
Satisfaction
Wheels
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Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.
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Technology
Color
Shapes
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Events
Feelings
Fiction
Importance
Mysterious
Reveals
Varied
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Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they're not.
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Fashion
Fun
Intelligent
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Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.
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Paris
Spring
Sunset
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Radio wasn't outside our lives. It coincided with and helped to shape our childhood and adolescence. As we slogged toward maturity, it also grew up and turned into television, leaving behind, like dead skin, transistorized talk-radio and nonstop music. . . .
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Life
Childhood
Maturity
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When Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray) promised to send a shooting star over the house to mark a young listener's birthday, the young listener, who had hung out the window for an hour without seeing the star, questioned not Uncle Bob (or Ted or Ray), but his own eyesight.
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Uncles
House
Rays
Stars
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Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us, indeed, and a lot of it is hot air. It's a measure of my mixed feelings about The Empire Strikes Back that I'm not at all sure that I understand the plot. The Empire Strikes Back is about as personal as a Christmas card from a bank.
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Air
Christmas Card
Feelings
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The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original film was. Even if Part II were a lot more cohesive, revealing and exciting than it is, it probably would have run the risk of appearing to be the self-parody it now seems…Its insights are fairly lame at this point.
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Running
Risk
Self
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In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as a doctor, we have only one commercial American filmmaker who consistently speaks with his own voice. That is Woody Allen, gag writer, musician, humorist, philosopher, playwright, stand-up comic, film star, film writer and film director.
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Opportunity
Greatness
Stars
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There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new for him, emotion. It's like a dream of levitation: you're instantaneously aloft, soaring, banking, doing loop-the-loops and then, when you think you're about to plummet to earth, swooping to a gentle touchdown of not easily described sweetness and sorrow.
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Dream
Play
Thinking
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Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.
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Clothes
Doctors
Long
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