Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Restic said, with so many injuries, "it's so easy to say we can't do it. But we just go out and play the same way." And he added in a soft voice, "It tells you a bit about our players. It is the closest team I've had at Harvard...
...this choreography is as delicate as lacework, it is every bit as intricate. Fokine uses the ensemble dancers--the corps de ballet--with deft economy of rich imagination. At different times they function both as a choral commentary on the soloists, mirroring the angle of a ballerina's body, and as architecture, a fluid linkage of arches and trelliswork. The Boston Ballet's corps rose to the occasion, offering Fokine's masterpiece with devotion and care...
...huge set pieces come off a bit better, especially so in the case of a tumultuous fight scene that parallels the climax of Rocky. But it is really around its fringes that Paradise Alley becomes interesting. Kevin Conway, as a James Cagney-inspired hood, brings savage, roughhouse wit to some incidental barroom scenes. In the expendable role of a has-been black wrestler, Frank McRae is a knockout. Though playing a slow-witted loser without money or friends, this actor retains a delicate sense of dignity. His two brief scenes carry more emotional weight than all the rest of Paradise...
With Stage II, Carter may not have bitten the bullet, but at least he bit the aspirin. The much debated new program is harmless enough, and it may give the President some time and space to do what needs to be done: cut the bloat in the budget, reduce costly regulation, encourage the Federal Reserve Board to let the money supply grow only slowly and steadily. That, and only that, can slow the price spiral...
...talented people have worked very hard on Comes a Horseman. They may have worked a bit too hard. A liberal-minded western set in 1940s Montana, the film has been so carefully thought out that it seems cut and dried. There are fine performances, picturesque settings and noble sentiments on display, but there are no emotional or intellectual mysteries to hook the audience's imagination. Every level of the movie's meaning can be found right on its surface. Since that surface is only rarely bestirred by action or drama, Comes a Horseman ultimately comes to nothing...