Word: anticlimaxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second half, their transformations seem arbitrarily decreed by Coppola rather than dramatically justified. We feel nothing. Still, the crew members are almost Dostoyevskian in complexity compared with the deranged Kurtz. When we finally meet the renegade at his camp of Montagnard disciples, Apocalypse Now collapses into a terminal anticlimax. An overweight, bald Brando weaves in and out of the shadows of his temple headquarters, doing little more than spouting quotations from Conrad and T.S. Eliot...
...most revealing sign of all about the future occurred at the Vienna airport. Air Force One, our Boeing 707, a proud and beautiful lady who has seen a lot of history, rolled up to the ramp. Spotlights played on the Presidential Seal, but there was a faint feeling of anticlimax. Just before Carter arrived, the media plane had emptied its army. For the first tune since Presidents have been flying, Air Force One was in a shadow. The media came on a gorgeous...
...imagined. Her people, mostly women waiting for something or someone, are mercurial consciousnesses flowing smoothly from past to future or recording temperatures that have not yet occurred. One woman preens in a room, anticipating the man who is to meet her, smiling at herself as he might. Conclusion is anticlimax...
...packed, steamy White House press room last week. He knew that he was about to make one of the most important announcements of the Carter Administration. But it had been so long in coming that instead of elation | and high drama, the final declaration was something of an anticlimax. Reading from a prepared text, the Secretary of State ! said simply that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. "have concluded our negotiations on SALT...
Undaunted, Marchais and Mitterrand doggedly returned to the campaign trail in the week between the two rounds. Almost desperately, they escalated their campaign rhetoric in an effort to overcome the general sense of anticlimax that had settled over the country. "If the right wins." cried Mitterrand, "there is a great risk of creating in France a climate of the kind that precedes the rise of fascism." For his part, Marchais proclaimed that a victory for the government forces would mean that "tomorrow there will be even more daily difficulties and privation, layoffs and unemployment, authoritarianism and degradation in the quality...