Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IT IS a frustrating task, for Shawcross has seen the American system at its most perverted. Willie Shawcross went to Washington and to Phnom Penh as an outsider, trying to find out what the hell was going on. Eight years later Shawcross has seen the guts of our political system...
Several times during the summer, I worked in the Times morgue, the clipping library. It was deathly boring, filing away little yellow slivers of old Times stories. I filed those clippings for hours, literally hours. Then I'd return to the copy desk to huddle with my supervisor, who'd...
The film begins with a woman (Romy Schneider) obtaining an abortion, mostly because her lover is a boring failure. It ends with her carrying to term a child she has conceived with her former husband, who is not boring and is successful. Just why she left him in the first...
In the bad old days of traditional politics, a President had some prestige, there were generally resources available, and the system had enough cohesion to move forward with modest coaxing. The central political question now may be whether our constitutional system is still functional. The nation's problems are...
The film's emphasis, however, is too often elsewhere. Much of the plot revolves around an attempt to frame Julian for a particularly unpleasant sadomasochistic murder. Hector Elizondo is fine as the detective investigating the case, and Julian's attempts to clear himself allow Writer-Director Paul Schrader...