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...skeletal chorus we have a carousing corps of dancing peasant women. The film adds to the opera's sensuality without detracting from its heart. Save for the Flower Song scene, Rosi carefully avoids relying on facial close-ups and gestures which--though a necessary cinemagraphic technique--would have been absent from a stage version. In Carmen, the music's the thing...
...NOTEBOOK: The three absent Crimson players were Co-Captain Larry Scott, Bill Stanley and Darryl Laddin... The matches were played both indoors and outdoors...
...subtle previews, Impulse would appear to possess all the necessary credentials to qualify as a low-budget fleshbath. Yet from its outset, the film works to counter that temptation. In fact, with the exception of one brief sex scene, ironically distinguished by its lack of nudity, sex is essentially absent from this film...
...establishment of a Soviet or Cuban military base in Nicaragua, and then only as an "option" to be used in consultation with U.S. allies in the region. But the hedges, and his frequent reliance on aides for clarification, only served to undercut his charge that Reagan is "essentially absent" from the formation of U.S. foreign policy...
...only in so far as it does not interfere with a "speaker's ability to communicate and the rights of other members of the audience to listen," Bok invokes the maxim: "Your freedom to swing your first stops at the point of my nose." Bok could have gone further; absent is perhaps the most potent argument against the hecklers--that the democracy they epitomize is one in which the loudest voices prevail, which is no democracy to speak...