Word: brights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This new farmer is smarter as well as richer than the farmers of an earlier time. One man says, "It used to be that if you had a child who wasn't too bright, you'd say, 'Son, you're going to be a farmer." But things are different...
THERE are bright spots enough to keep one awake--barely, there is no doubt that the cast deserves an A for effort. But while the play tries to capture the essence of some of the greatest moral and political dilemmas of the century and simultaneously recap some of Brazil's recent history, the audience is expected to sit still for a good two hours or more...
...BEST, this is good zesty comedy, and it should not pretend to aspire to the emotional delicacy and technical subtlety of the great classical tradition. Dressed up in bright crayon colors, the ample scenery chunky as a child's blocks, "Cinderella" paints a tongue-in-cheek fable in a collection of surfaces; as spectacle charming, but trivial...
Newton talks of a bright future. Although the Panthers now number no more than 500, roughly half their strength a decade ago, he sees them as "very much alive because our survival programs are alive." He has been studying at the University of California for a doctorate in the history of social consciousness, and he looks forward to teaching at the Panther school and participating in local politics. "I plan to work in Oakland," he says. "I love Oakland...
...vocal characterizations by such English worthies as Ralph Richardson, Harry Andrews and Denholm Elliott are never confusing. The English pastoral tradition, both in painting and hi literature, informs the movie in a subliminal way that is very attractive. It even makes the largest miscue, a dreadful pop song called Bright Eyes sung by Art Garfunkel, almost bearable...