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...response by shooting and cutting alone, nonetheless shows real concern for achieving a set of convincing and consistent performances from major and minor players. Several performances are considerable achievements in their own right. Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons bring grim authority to three dull and aimless lives. Faye Dunaway will be a great star, she already is, and Beatty, with his utterly credible portrayal of Clyde, finally comes into...
Then, catching sight of the television cameras, they flocked together and. . . nothing, just sporadic cheering and aimless waving. Violence became farce. The cameramen made empty signs of victory to incite "the surging crowd" to new heights of prime time enthusiasm, suitable for national consumption...
...knowing that the race will die with her and with the girls she has overseen since their childhood. Her charges pack up to resume their wandering, and try to take the Gramophone with them. When the old man protests, they gun him down like an animal and resume their aimless journey. Director Jan Schmidt has given Ozone the spare style of a Kafka fable, abetted by Poničanová's tragic portrait of a woman who seems to be lifted directly from a Kollwitz engraving...
...coming bogged down in bureaucracy or timidity. For in retrospect, perhaps the CIA's most important contribution was not money but unconventional and imaginative ideas, notwithstanding failures. If the new "mechanism" can steer between a too specific, outdated cold war orientation, on the one hand, and an aimless benevolence on the other, it has a truly exciting chance not merely to provide shelter for the orphans but to modify the entire pattern of America's self-projection in the world...
...paid interview system. Applicants can zip down to Princeton to look the school over for a few days, and the school picks up the tab. That kind of money is obviously an attraction by itself: students vaguely interested in government can sooner see spending two lavish, aimless years studying politics than three rough, possibly costly, years studying...