“ All of us knew the brownstone stoops in a Warner Brothers movie as well as we knew our own front porches. ”
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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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“ America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side. ”
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“ Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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“ America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side. ”
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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. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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“ America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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“ America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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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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“ We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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“ We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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“ It is a movie of such unrelieved genteelness that it makes one long to head for Schrafft's for a double-gin martini, straight up, and a stack of cinnamon toast from which the crusts have been removed. ”
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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. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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“ America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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“ We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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“ Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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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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“ All of us knew the brownstone stoops in a Warner Brothers movie as well as we knew our own front porches. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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“ America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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“ We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
- 1.5K
“ It is a movie of such unrelieved genteelness that it makes one long to head for Schrafft's for a double-gin martini, straight up, and a stack of cinnamon toast from which the crusts have been removed. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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“ America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side. ”
- Vincent Canby- Copy
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“ America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side. ”
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“ Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment. ”
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