Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hill can do little about what is essentially an administrative decision. But Congress is likely to do something about the Administration's voting rights bill. The bill was introduced without prior consultation with congressional leaders, who had already indicated their intention to extend the Southern-focused Voting Rights Act of 1965 for another five years. It would strengthen the present law by barring voter-literacy tests nationwide, although in most states this is not an issue. At the same time, it would undermine the enforceability of the existing law in the South by eliminating the advance Justice Department review...
...through. At the scene's end, with nothing resolved, she backs out of the room and the frame closes in on her. Halfway through the door (and out of the picture), she stops when the King picks up her purse and gloves and brings them to her, in the act re-enlarging the surrounding space. His gesture amounts to a rescue...
Nevertheless, the return to the circus finds her in her ultimate imprisonment, at the top of the circus in a cage. Her dive into a tiny net is the last necessary step in the circus act (which is also the act of re-creating her life)' the audience demands it as part of the romantic spectacle. Since it might cause her death, Lola's dive is also a potential act of suicide and escape, the most desperate of all romantic acts. At the same time the ringmaster is forcing her to jump. As he counts to three, the frame tilts...
...stylistically and thematically this fragmentation of the film's progress defeats Lola's imprisonment (present and in memory) in space. The time of Lola Montes' flashbacks is willed into being. Though in the circus she is at the end of her life physically and morally, she can by an act of art transcend her present situation, if only to relive the compulsion of her past. The effort drives her nearer death, both in the flashbacks and in the circus. The person we see developing in the two situations is a single person, Lola in the most artistic and romantic action...
...desperation of this act shows her far Ophuls' view of life has developed. His heroine's life is far less free than in his early films. Her strong will only leads her into attachments where her imprisonment becomes more and more complete, her position more and more dangerous, her strength less powerful. Ophuls breaks new ground in showing her escape in each case a transcendence of the situation, a refusal to stop or yield, that in the circus leads to her most dangerous act, re-creating her past...