Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trial. Orson Welles is a cinema genius whose flops are more fascinating than the hits of lesser men, and in this eerie piece of esoterica, an adaptation of Franz Kafka's parable of the Anxious Age, he has produced the most fascinating failure of his career, a madhouse matinee that...
...left turned out to be a remarkably shallow and ineffectual clique; the army, said Conservative Party Leader Francisco Salazar, "has no strong leader, and it doesn't want to get mixed up in politics." And even those most disillusioned with Arosemena's personal shortcomings are not anxious to overturn...
...unwittingly organized this resistance by committing two early blunders. First, it hired off-duty firemen to inspect the buildings to determine if they met health and safety standards. The firemen were probably qualified to check building standards, but they could not answer the questions of anxious and frightened housewives about the renewal program itself. The question, "What's going to happen to my home and my family?" went unanswered...
...hashish addiction. Makleff, who had been made chief of staff of the Israeli armed forces at 32 because of his skill at organization and administration, quickly cleaned up Sodom. He fired most of the old managers, handed out productivity bonuses, opened training schools to teach workers new skills. Anxious to set up new industries, the government sold majority interest in the works to the public in order to qualify for the World Bank loan...
...coaxes some entrancing episodes from Romy Schneider and a good low bit from Jeanne Moreau. And he gets more out of Tony Perkins than there is in him. This resolutely cute young man, the sweater-boy wonder of the fan-mag industry, is surely an improbable archetype of the Anxious Age; but in scene after scene Welles rolls him up like an empty toothpaste tube and squeezes till the right expression pops out of his face...