Word: braveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Productions by corporate raiders in a manner the founder would have approved: brisk narrative colored in primary emotional tones. The takeover artists are sometimes attractively shrewd but heedlessly greedy -- for action as much as for power and money. The company's executives, ponderously led by President Ron Miller, are brave but inept in their resistance. Meanwhile, Walt's nephew Roy and the other heirs squabble among themselves. In the end, all concerned muddle their way to a bright new management team -- imported from Paramount and Warner Bros. -- that will restore the company's fortunes. But this seems more luck than...
...choreographer. Unfortunately, American audiences may find these mighty pageants simplistic. The silent-film grimaces, the cartoons of good and evil, + the battle cries hurled soundlessly into the air can all be a bit quaint, unless one is willing to forget everything that Balanchine and Tudor accomplished and enter this brave old world wholeheartedly...
...Point. Sir Henry needs a liaison between himself and Arnold to conduct negotiations both delicate and possibly dangerous; the task falls to Clinton's adjutant, Major John Andre. Arnold's treason is a familiar story, but British Journalist Anthony Bailey retells it from an intriguing angle. Here is the brave but unlucky major, captured, his mission exposed, awaiting his fate and talking to pass the time. He asks his American guards to consider the principles that governed his behavior: "It seems to me that it is a proper object in war, to take advantage of a rebel officer's desire...
...Dante (Gremlins) and "presented" by Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones), join the parade of winners? Or even surpass them? It ought to. It's the summer's best "summer movie." This is a film with something -- indeed, too funny much -- for everybody. A sci-fi thriller in which one brave man is miniaturized to the size of a mote and takes a fantastic voyage into another man's buttock. A buddy picture in which both buddies occupy the same body. A classic romance of two men in love with the same girl, and somehow all three kiss at once. And just...
...brave new world of brain implants to treat neurological disorders may be on the horizon. -- Can mosquitoes carry the AIDS virus...