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...never quite manage-is the 5-ft., 100-odd-lb. figure of Teresa Stratas. Instead of the usual wisp of pathetic winsomeness, Stratas makes of Mimi a complete woman, one with physical and emotional desires and the will to achieve them. Impulsively planting a kiss on Rodolfo's cheek near the end of Act I, calmly singing at the center of the maelstrom of Act II, reaching out to her lover amid the snowdrifts of Act III or expiring serenely in Act IV, Stratas holds the attention with both her voice and body, giving the opera a strong central...
...West's dual response of sanctions and of turning the other cheek has only served to strengthen the hawkish elements in the Soviet Union. By accelerating the arms race, the United States has assured that the historically paranoid Soviets place their best resources and brains into the military, the only sector of the Russian economy that works well. Should the West boycott trade with the U.S.S.R. and its satellites altogether, a policy favored by some members of Congress, not only would Western Europe suffer if indeed it went along, but the West might push the Soviets to the economic brink...
...down jacket, she stepped out on deck. The air was cool (mid-50s) and stunningly clear after the day's rainstorms. She untied the rubber dinghy from the stern and then, according to Noguchi, fell from the Splendour into the 63° F water, bruising her left cheek as she tumbled overboard...
...youth. The years of quickies, westerns, acid, and road movies paid off, creating a unique, vibrant, tenacious, intelligent, self-promoting, humanistic, aloof symbol of the modern age. In his best roles, Nicholson represents order amid chaos. Not in a stilted, dreary, macho way, but in an active, tongue-in-cheek yet soul-wrenching, personally moral way. All those years of hard knocks were the catalyst in his concluding what most of Hollywood has yet to discover: that there is no longer a cohesive common good, or even a "sanity" worth preserving...
...plot is not so much derivative as accumulative, encompassing historic epochs, good versus evil, and social commentary, all with a light tongue in cheek. It seems The Supreme Being (pictured for most of the movie like one of the Wizard's apparitions, a disembodied, blustering head, but then realized on earth by Sir Ralph Richardson in a rumpled suit) has demoted these midgets from their tree-and-shrub supervision. Their sin? "Wally here made a tree 300 feet tall, with pink leaves,...that smelled awful!" This is the tone of much of the humor--old hat, but cute. The dwarves...