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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt call into question the value of a life whose security can be ensured only be deaths upon deaths. There are moments when such seems to be the situation in Israel: moments when it seems that it must resign itself to being Sparta, a nation of warriors, and abandon the Athenian style. The dilemma is a particularly difficult one for the Israelis because their image and identity which is now evolving is, in a sense, both the fulfillment and contradiction of their historic traditions...
Lord Chancellor Gardiner put the matter well during the debate that preceded the end of the death penalty for murder in Britain. Speaking of earlier decisions to abandon the grotesque hanging, disemboweling and quartering of traitors, he said: "We did not abolish that punishment because we sympathized with traitors, but because we took the view that it was a punishment no longer consistent with our self-respect." It would be welcome, in a time of diminished self-respect, to take this particular step toward reasserting...
...ultimate Hollywood movie about cops and killers. Its hero, the quintessence of the cool keen-eyed loner with a badge, sets himself against the epitome of evil, a psychopathic blackmailer who loves to murder. These two types have fought it out before, but never with such violent abandon. Dirty Harry may have its flaws with logic and over-simplification, but its sheer brute force kicks aside all discrepancies as it hurtles towards the final confrontation of primitive good and evil...
...that Preminger was probably right in choosing to play it for comedy. He even got Elaine May to rewrite the script. Miss May, however, shrewdly chose not to have her name appear on the screen credits. The large and generally unsubtle cast includes James Coco, who acts with grotesque abandon, Ken Howard, Jennifer O'Neill and Nina Foch...
...belong to me completely. I must come first in his life," she insists. The musician Erland to whom Gertrud turns for the perfect love she seeks disappoints her too. When she proposes going away together, he tells her about another woman who is pregnant and whom he will not abandon. Rejecting the entreaties of a former lover. Gertrud leaves the men who love her to study in Paris and live the rest of her years in solitude. The slow pace of the action, and of the camera movement, could be deadly to the unprepared spectator. But if one accepts...