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WHILE THE ESTABLISHMENT of an authentic base makes Sally's portrait refreshingly convincing, Conrad and Dall animate through the imposition of various cinematic devices. The first segment of the film, in prison, moves at a brisk pace--cuts are quick, shot-counter-shot and reverse angle sequences accent confrontational situations as in her appearance before the parole committee. When it comes time to cope with the outside world, the use of rapid zoom makes us actively feel the threat of her new environment. In filming elegant clothing, (objects of Sally's material aspirations), Conrad and Dall deliberately place the camera...
Trade in the bazaars is brisk. It includes a thriving black market in which Soviet soldiers barter vodka, clothing, even ammunition for hashish. Here and there, turbaned vendors beckon for customers to examine straw baskets filled with lethal-looking daggers with 6-to 8-in. blades. A pair of passing Soviet privates, their Kalashnikovs at their sides, eye the knives nervously...
Under the direction of Seiji Ozawa, the orchestra delivered a brisk rendition of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as thousands scattered across the grassy amphitheater cheered...
...Japan's Red Army, and backed extremists in the ranks of the Palestine Liberation Organization. While his role in last week's assassination is disparaged, his hand in other, failed plots against Egypt is a certainty. For four days in 1977, Libya and Egypt clashed in a brisk border...
...Supreme Court," says James Bryce in The American Commonwealth, "feels the touch of public opinion." That is for sure, and there is a further truth: public opinion, or incensed parts of it, sometimes tries to reach the federal judiciary with a bit more than a touch-with a brisk left hook, say, or a fast right cross. One of those times is at hand: congressional leaders of the New Right are avidly mounting a serious assault on the power, authority and prestige of the federal courts...