Word: brandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite such gradual accommodations, Mormonism will never blend easily into the religious landscape. Ever since Jesus appeared to Smith to denounce other Christian creeds as "an abomination," the Mormons have considered themselves the one true "restored" church. While standard-brand Christianity insists that God is a spirit. Mormons believe that he inhabits a body of flesh and bone. In fact the Mormon God was once a man himself, and Mormon men can hope to become gods themselves in the afterlife. The Mormons reject such orthodox doctrines as the Trinity and original sin. In their complex eschatology, Jesus will return...
...corn-pone jokes, some directed at the august but arcane institution that he heads. He has invented a mythical poll in which 23% of the U.S. population thought the Federal Reserve was an Indian reservation, 26% judged it to be a wildlife preserve and 51% identified it as a brand of whisky. Most important, he speaks almost garrulously in tones of unabashed can-do optimism. The nation, he insists, can bring down its frightening rate of inflation without suffering another recession?indeed, while working toward a "model economy" in the 1980s...
...Theater, is almost 41 years old; the first line of its first number is "Sing me a song of social significance." But the difference between what was socially significant in 1937 and in 1978 is so ironically perceptible as to cripple some of the numbers while endowing others with brand-new satirical bite...
However unsavory the Cubans may find the Russians as people, they regard them as indispensable allies. The central fact of Cuban economic life is the 16-year-old U.S. trade embargo, or "blockade," as the Cubans call it. One of the political realities that make Castro's brand of totalitarianism easier for the Cubans to accept is the looming hostility of Cuba's giant neighbor to the north...
...camerawork is beautiful, as it has been in many of his earlier films, but the story and acting in this fiasco are purely insipid. Particularly bad is Keith Carradine as the voyeur-dissipant who takes little Brooke away from all the evil and loses her later. Carradine's particular brand of stuporous non-acting was good once, in Nashville, when everyone thought he was acting, but now we all know he's just sitting there. A curious, but unaffecting, film...