Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outsiders, but each small commandment inflicts its own small cut-slowly removing the world from the man, slowly reducing the areas in which he is free to make even small decisions. Woods is already treated as though he suffers some undiagnosed illness. Friends become nervous about how to approach him or what to say. People ask how he is, with the concern they would show for a patient who is in the hospital. "Donald" is discussed in the third person, sometimes even in the past tense. A friend's affectionate newspaper piece about him in the Rand Daily Mail...
...agreed that they were censored last year. Describing their reaction to the cancellation of the 1977 meeting, visitors used such phrases as "outraged," "shellshocked," or "more than a little annoyed." Norton resigned his position, saying that the committee presented its viewpoint, but as the school has a distinctly different approach, continued meetings are purposeless. Norton feels there is no clear way of identifying which side is "right" and which is "wrong." The best tactic now, he says, is to appoint a wholly new committee, "get a new broom and let it sweep for a while." Visitors reported Hidetada Sasaki...
Events overwhelm the play, breaking its continuity and interfering with its principle missions, the intimate portrayal of a complex and intriguing political personality. Adopting the overused one-man show approach, playwright Dore Schary pays too much attention to minor historical incidents during the Roosevelt administration. He fails to provide the character with the breathing space so essential for success in what has become a tired and formulaic format. As Roosevelt discusses his presidential years, he shifts abruptly from event to event, changing subjects and moving through time too quickly. As a result, the play fails to fully achieve the dramatic...
...Diane Keaton, Woody Allen's latest--and arguably best--film is far more than cinema a clef. Allen's sensitive, sometimes painfully realistic portrait of a failed love affair between a neurotic but lovable New York Jew and a flaky midwestern WASP marks a generally successful departure in thematic approach: "Annie Hall" goes much farther in exploring human relationships than any of Allen's previous films. Still, the best moments in the film are the deliberate send-ups in which Allen unleashes his scathing wit against such deserving targets as Los Angeles and the Beautiful People, the too-chic Manhatten...
...life--where you came from and where you're going. Kitchens and negliges are a matter of course here. If you can survive overuse of family pictures--which any film-maker should already know are a bore to anyone but their subjects--you'll find these films a refreshing approach to cinema...