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re: Rex Reed also calls ''Rocky'' a knockout and raves about Andy Karl

Posted by: Chromolume 08:46 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: Rex Reed also calls ''Rocky'' a knockout and raves about Andy Karl - WaymanWong 12:52 am EDT 03/14/14

MERELY sensational? Sounds like a bit of a dig. I doubt he meant it that way, but that's an odd choice of word.


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re: Rex Reed also calls ''Rocky'' a knockout and raves about Andy Karl

Posted by: Chazwaza 01:33 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: re: Rex Reed also calls ''Rocky'' a knockout and raves about Andy Karl - Chromolume 08:46 pm EDT 03/14/14

I don't like Rex Reed, but I think the word choice is better than you're giving credit for. I think the use of a minimizing adverb is meant to give a sassy kind of power to the surprising nature of the sensation performance. Yeah, he's pretty good, he's only SENSATIONAL!

I dunno, it's hard to explain, but I think it works.


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re: Rex Reed also calls ''Rocky'' a knockout and raves about Andy Karl

Posted by: PlayWiz 11:11 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: re: Rex Reed also calls ''Rocky'' a knockout and raves about Andy Karl - Chromolume 08:46 pm EDT 03/14/14

Maybe Rex had been listening to the OCR of "Redhead" and was bowled over by Gwen Verdon's recording of "I Feel Merely Marvelous"?


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re: Rex Reed also calls ''Rocky'' a knockout and raves about Andy Karl

Posted by: Chromolume 11:32 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: re: Rex Reed also calls ''Rocky'' a knockout and raves about Andy Karl - PlayWiz 11:11 pm EDT 03/14/14

Perhaps, but he could have kept the idea of that alliteration and penned "simply sensational," which I think would have sounded better. ;-)


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re: Rex Reed also calls ''Rocky'' a knockout and raves about Andy Karl

Posted by: PlayWiz 11:34 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to: re: Rex Reed also calls ''Rocky'' a knockout and raves about Andy Karl - Chromolume 11:32 pm EDT 03/14/14

Agreed! :)


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