Word: cipher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life, a larger-than-life life. But Jerry Ford comes from a different mold--he fell into his job. He made it to the top the way officers advance in the Army: he got along by going along. And that meant being a cipher...
Looking and sounding a lot like Alexander Scourby, Charles Cioffi deserves praise as the senator, though the role remains confusing and enigmatic. We get a clearer picture of his long-dead father. The daughter (Shaine Marinson) is cipher, and the aide (David Rasche) only a little better. This leaves the mother as the sole rounded character, and Irene Worth never fails to hold out interest--whether singing, preparing food, looking out the window, lying on a couch, or blowing out 17 candles...
...that anyone else under John Clark's flaccid direction is giving her much acting competition. Robert LuPone's Dauphin is such a prancing cipher that one fears the crown that Joan se cures for him at Rheims Cathedral will melt his head. Paul Sparer, as the Inquisitor, gives a saturnine gravity to the renowned and convoluted speech on heresy, but his plea for justice with mercy is a trifle smarmy. Only Philip Bosco as the English Earl of Warwick conveys nobility in voice and bearing...
Boyce admitted using a Minox camera he said was given him by Lee to photograph some IBM cipher cards and parts of a top-secret feasibility study of a satellite system. Furthermore, Boyce said he himself had made two trips to Mexico City and met Boris Grishin, the science attaché at the Soviet embassy. The defendant acknowledged that he had received $15,000, and said that Lee had received $61,000. His main motivation in all this, Boyce maintained, was simply to "keep Lee off my back," claiming that his old friend had even threatened to have him killed...
...PASSENGER. A thriller that is also a cipher about a journalist (Jack Nicholson) who swaps identities with a dead man. Michelangelo Antonioni's film is full of dead-end romanticism and voluptuous mystery...