Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Choice. In Mujib's absence, the resistance movement is sorely lacking leadership, as well as arms, ammunition and communications gear. In late March, the mukti fauj (liberation forces) overwhelmed several company-size elements, as at Kushtia and Pabna, but bolt-action rifles cannot stop Sabre jets, artillery and army troops operating in battalion strength...
...blinding speed and a diverse repertory of shifty moves. Skating at full steam, he will suddenly come to a dead stop in front of a startled defender. Then, without losing the puck, he can pivot in a full circle and either flip a backhand pass to a teammate or bolt around the defender. In a variation on the classic give-and-go of basketball, he will lob a lazy pass across the blue line to the center, then streak for the net in time to receive the return pass and slap it in. His awed teammates call him Moses-"because...
...landscapes and come to recognize nuances of plot and characterization, the film fails to achieve the goal which justified its Super-Panavision scale: the creation of a paradigmatic tale recounting the fall of the twentieth-century Westerner before self-sufficient, tribal communities. Though David Lean's and screenwriter Robert Bolt's goal may seem portentously abstract, that goal is not achieved precisely because the creators exclude too vast a body of particular information...
...main reason that T.E. Lawrence has always been an intellectual's darling: he was rather intellectual himself, and was conscious of the choices he made during his career, if not of their effects. But within the film's own limits, there is no way to verify Lean's, Bolt's, or Lawrence's ideals and interpretations. The filmmakers haven't backed Lawrence with the history he participated in and grew out of. I'm not sure that this would have proved feasible for a conventional 'story' film; Tony Richardson tried to rectify his narrative limitations in Charge of the Light...
...BOLT and Lean, mapmaker Lawrence is a brilliant and self-confident innocent who undertook a personal assizement of the importance of the Arab Revolt of 1916 merely as a chance to escape from General Murray's stifling Cairo staff and indulge in colorful heroics. Lawrence is gradually seduced by the life-style of an Arab warrior, and by the possibility of playing an epic role in the formation of a new democracy-a task which would offer him visionary fulfillment. A bastard, without any inherited identity but possessed of an irrepressible free will, Lawrence welcomes the opportunity to create...