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Some of Sendak's illustrations for Nutcracker particularly the smaller and more conventionally stylized portraits of soldiers crews horses and the array of other minute depictions are both lovely and appropriate. The large illustrations however betray much too much Where The Wild Things Are and threatened to distract from the text. They're fine if you are partial to Max's dreams, but they are not Hoffmann and the distractions is unwelcome. His contribution to the revival of the Hoffmann spirits of the Nutcracker cannot be underscored enough. Yet one who claims to hold the thoughts of children so dear...
...Meyers and Charles Shyer (who here makes his directorial debut) appear to have been up and down and to have learned that both are bad news; they also display a familiarity with the life and films of Peter Bogdanovich. Only in their reach for a reconciling ending do they betray the cool ferocity of their approach. They may love old movies as much as their protagonist does, but they should know that, for good or ill, Frank Capra has retired. -By Richard Schickel
...sense of community than in the way Benton groups its citizens, first at a wake, then at a dance. At another moment, a pair of guilty lovers (Ed Harris and Amy Madigan), emblematic of the dissatisfactions that dare not speak their name in all the earth's Waxahachies, betray themselves to his wife (Lindsay Grouse) by the way they handle a deck of cards in a rummy game. Best of all is the Communion service that climaxes the movie, where, with amazing grace, Benton moves almost imperceptibly from reality to fantasy in order to find for his people...
Nevertheless, murmurs among some group members betray a harsher view of Harvard's Black hiring record. Some hint that it was the University "foot dragging" that purred them to action, and the principal success of the group that many members city private is the shift of discussion on affirmative action from the realm of governmentally imposed technicalities to that of pragmatic planning...
...faith and to Christian living produced by forms of liberation theology that uncritically borrow Marxist ideas." It declares that Marxism holds out the false hope that a revolutionary society will be a just one, while itself creating new forms of oppression. Those who aid such revolutions, it says, "betray the very poor they mean to help." The Vatican warns that radical theologians, by building Christian teaching around Marxist ideas like class struggle, distort the Bible, undercut morality and create divisions within the church...