Word: bruck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that may change. As the Winter Olympics got under way in Inns bruck last week, competitors from these two obscure sports put America well up in the medal rankings with performances that were the talk of the Tyrol...
...JERRY BRUCK'S hour-long documentary I.F. Stone's Weekly carries on in the spirit of the publication after which it is named: brief, to the point, black and white, without frills, honest, clear, and filled with Stone's energy and courage. Like Stone, Bruck uses a traditional narrative voice effectively, relying on the importance of his subject and an honest presentation to engage his audience...
...Bruck's film portrays the attitudes and devotion Stone brought to bear on his enterprise. "Every government is run by liars," Stone says. "Establishment reporters know a lot of things I don't know, but a lot of what they know isn't true." The film shows Stone in his small office, interrupting a piece to take a telephone subscription order, and shows Esther Stone, his wife and the Weekly's circulation manager, sorting bills on their living room table. Unfortunately, one thing the film never shows is a printed edition of the Weekly. Bruck missed an obvious opportunity...
...pose as peacemaker: "He thinks he's Mahatma Nixon, a man in a loin cloth." But later, Stone, the self-proclaimed "counterrevolutionary," wonders aloud before a student audience whether youthful revolutionary fervor might not be the product of unresolved adolescent crises. Without criticizing Stone's published work in depth, Bruck at least does justice to his subject's conflicting impulses...
...Bruck's Stone emerges a hero, but not the idol of any one party. Heroic for his honesty, independence, and moral strength, he is cheered by demonstrators, applauded at an academic convocation. The film seems to show that however people interpret Stone's political goals, he is finally respected universally for his drive and integrity. It is impossible to deny the justice of the portrait; Stone is a militantly honest...