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tasteful and colossal are - in movies, at least - basically antipathetic.

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Pauline Kael
Age: 82 †
Born: 1919
Born: June 19
Died: 2001
Died: September 3
Film Critic
Journalist
Writer
Petaluma
California
Least
Movie
Tasteful
Colossal
Basically
Movies

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