Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Suez crisis, Pearson abandoned his brilliant diplomatic career to assume the leadership of the recently defeated Liberal Party. Within two months he had led his party into unprecedented political catastrophe. The Conservatives under John Diefenbaker achieved the most one-sided election victory in Canadian history, and Pearson became the leader of a tiny Opposition...
...audience identify with the surface realism of the situation. Young succeeds well in meeting the challenge. The pauses and rushes are well thought out; the audience, which in this kind of film is usually skeptical, can content itself that it would react similarly. The final shock is a brilliant exercise in audience manipulation...
...kids of the '60s, with their sexual hang-ups and his-and-her looks, something of what West Side Story-alias Romeo and Juliet-did for the rumbling teen-age groups of the '50s. In Your Own Thing, Shakespeare has had the services of a brilliant collaborator from Portland, Ore. Writer-Director Donald Driver, 44, has mounted the story of Viola and Duke Orsino, Olivia and Sebastian on a simple white set that swings with multimedia cinema effects and a hard-rock beat...
...antiseptic buildings, in the whir of computers, and in the human automatons who face their drab jobs with all the relish of zombies. That at least seems to be the view of Sebastian, a film that attempts to analyze the mind-numbing effects of a Pentagonal bureaucracy on a brilliant civil servant...
...argues that Homo sapiens, for all the brilliant achievements of his civilization, would be far better off if he admitted that he still has a lot of the old ape left...