Word: chord
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chase that occupies the bulk of the film. In it, Stallone stands off not only the sheriffs blundering posse but, eventually, hundreds of tangle-footed tenderfeet from the National Guard, in the process giving an artful demonstration of guerrilla warfare. The movie occasionally pauses to strum a familiar ironic chord: that the skills that make a man a hero in war can turn him into a criminal in peacetime. But First Blood is always eager to be up and about, attending to its real business, which is the celebration of primitive masculine competence in a succession of well-made action...
...These experiences, when they befall those close to us, prove so deeply personal that the idea of more than 100 college deans coming from all parts to discuss stress and substance abuse and suicide in a formal conference on "Stress-Related Problems Among College Students" strikes a distasteful chord...
When Susan Traherne (Kate Nelligan) was 17, she served as a courier with the French Resistance. It struck a harmonic chord of valor that haunts her during the rest of her frustrating life. In flashbacks and flashforwards, Plenty ranges from World War II through the '50s and '60s. Back in London, Susan blurs into the social canvas, drifting in and out of jobs, romances, causes, too self-indulgent and too undisciplined to harness her energies to her high self-expectations...
YOUR PARENTS can probably tell you precisely where they were and what they were doing when the news of John Kennedy's as assignation reached them. The murders of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King strike a similar chord. These men had a particular quality that made them a part--however intangible--of people's lives Perhaps it came from shared causes and ideas, or simply grew out of the cult of personality. Regardless, their tragic deaths were greeted with the kind of heartfelt grief usually reserved for the loss of a family member...
...accoutrements to the plot strike a visual chord. The costumes are exquisite, as are the wigs, the arrays of food, and the furnishings of the houses. Ranging from magnificent gardens to bleak deserts, director Carlos Diegues assaults us with a barrage of kaleidoscopic images. Even though these images never stop, no saturation point exists. Our eyes gladly devour these gorgeous pictures that affirm the gaudiness and materialism of Tijuco...