Word: bleakfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passage like the one where she describes to Orlando the earmarks of a man in love. But at times an unwelcome hard edge creeps into her voice. In addition, I miss the extraordinary radiance and ebullience an ideal Rosalind should convey--a task that would be easier amid less bleak surroundings...
What really sets these reviews apart from the rest is her private discovery, in each film, of a revolutionary jump in theme or technique, the unexpected tapping of a mother-lode. In Tango, she hits upon the bleak, angry use of explicit sex; in Shampoo, the expansion of the conventional romantic triangle into a romantic pentagon; and in Nashville, the seamless fusion of stylization and a documentary feel. She jumps up and down at these new affects, and never settles down to put her surgeon's tools to work. Sparked by a childlike fascination for film history and change...
Even on Friday night−payday−there's not much to enjoy in Soweto. Into a 35-sq.-mi. area are packed perhaps a million people−650,000 by official count−and life is hard and bleak. Soweto is Johannesburg's Harlem, a black ghetto that has sprawled into the country's fourth largest city...
...million cost of bringing a 45-member cast and a 30-piece orchestra together for five weeks of rehearsals in New York and tryouts in Philadelphia and Washington. But when it finally reached Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theater, the critics found its view of American history "bleak and patronizing" and its humor -typified by such lines as Dolly Madison saying "I must go feed my parrot, his language is becoming scandalous" -unbearably flat. While some found Bernstein's score strong, rich and melodic, others said it was "self-derivative" and unable to rescue "a bum idea that...
...husband-wife team's bleak as sessment came ten years after the original, optimistic report on their own pioneering experiments, which showed methadone could satisfy an addict's craving for heroin without causing its dazelike highs or hellish lows and helped inspire the nationwide methadone program. Blaming its failure directly on the Government, they complain bitterly of many "politically inspired controls." Relegated to jammed clinics, addicts are often processed on a "take-it-or-leave-it basis"; little or no effort is made to provide the supportive counseling or job help that made the original Dole-Nyswander experiments...