Word: acted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dean cultists seriously. The film follows a college student on the day Dean died, follows him through his torment over Dean's death which eventually leads him to leave school and his superficial friends. But on the way Bridges seems to keep insisting that, hey, didn't these people act foolish--he focuses on the superficial actions of the characters. His main character expresses his torment by driving to a river, covering himself with dirt, and holding a seance complete with an Academy Award made of mud. His idiocy is completed when he takes a dog's barking...
John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, of NBC's Saturday Night and other fame, have released a gem of an album under the guise of the Blues Brothers, an act first spawned to warm up Saturday Night studio audiences a year or so back. Perhaps you have caught a couple of their subsequent appearances on the show, decked out in black suits, fedoras, and shades that would have done a G-man proud (circa 1962). Steve Martin, who guest hosted one show on which the Brothers performed, was sufficiently impressed to ask them to open eight shows...
...act gay and alive...
...desire to produce." Shaw labeled this will of the species the Life Force and gave an old formula an ingenious plot twist-boy meets girl, boy flees girl, girl gets boy. Q.E.D.: the Life Force triumphs again. To this, as a metaphysical dimension, Shaw added a third-act "Don Juan in Hell" sequence, a kind of afterworld dream in which the playwright argues that the Life Force has developed consciousness, and is using man in order to discern purpose and destiny in brute existence: "To be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer." Retorts...
...Times passes over all that thin ice by an act of rhetorical levitation, as if there were no such thing as gravity. Its central conceit is that "Mrs. Clinton is capable of growing beyond the ethical legacies of her Arkansas and White House years." We must all applaud this generous endorsement of the doctrine of redemption - no sinner but can be saved. Forget the carpetbagging, forget the years of lying, forget the ruthless opportunism. The Times editorial page, which has been fiercely critical for years about Whitewater and other Clinton scandals, forgives all of that now. Edifyingly, the capacity...