Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Devotion to Work. As Pearson's choice in the Justice Ministry, Trudeau distinguished himself as a brilliant administrator who-despite his playboy reputation-maintained an ascetic devotion to work. He drafted massive criminal code reforms, liberalizing divorce and abortion laws and legalizing homosexual acts between consenting adults. He also drew up most of the agenda for last February's constitutional conference in Ottawa, aimed at resolving French-English differences...
...tragic isolation from :he mainland of humanity. Though he has glaring faults as a scenarist, Director Bergman is supreme in handling us troupe; the actors, like Sven Nykvist's phosphorescent photography can ender reality and surreality without missing a heartbeat. Von Sydow is gothically brilliant as the madman; Ullman's ragedienne reinforces her position-already secured by Persona-as one of Scandmavia's major actresses. If in the nd, the Hour of the Wolf suffers from simplistic psychiatry and some less than fresh observations of man's fate, it remains worthwhile simply because Ingar Bergman...
...following scene, an australopithicine discovers what we will call the tool, a bone from a skeleton which, when used as an extension of the arm, adds considerably to the creature's strength. The discovery is executed in brilliant slow motion montage of the pre-ape destroying the skeleton with the bone, establishing Kubrick and Clarke's subjective anthropological notion that the discovery of the tool was identical to that of the weapon. The "dawn of man," then, is represented by a coupling of progress and destruction; a theme of murder runs through 2001 simultaneously with that of progress. Ultimately, Kubrick...
Joseph Hooker took charge from Burnside with appropriate swagger-"May God have mercy on General Lee, for I will have none"-and quickly gave Lee his most brilliant victory at Chancellorsville, where the Northern army was nearly routed by a force half its size. Federal dead numbered 17,000. In the summer of 1863, Lee prepared his second invasion of the North. George Meade, called in at the last minute to replace the bumbling Hooker, turned back the new thrust with considerable competence at Gettysburg-"General Meade will make no blunder on my front," Lee had correctly predicted...
...talk about sex. As a playwright, however, Lawrence has been ignored; his eight plays were poorly received on the rare occasions when they were performed during his lifetime, and they were first published in a collected edition only three years ago. Their new eminence is the result of a brilliant repertory pro duction of three of them at London's Royal Court Theater by a relatively un known director, Peter Gill...