Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usual, the hatchets are out for Antonioni. A lot has been written on The Passenger, especially on the last ten minutes. They are classic, rare moments on the screen. More than just stately choreography, they confront the key issues Antonioni has suggested ever since he first became an important force in the art. There is little use in even describing these moments, for they may strike almost everyone who sees them differently. They rely on the hope that the viewer cares about the problems Antonioni poses and cares to do the work he demands. Those...
...work llowing smoothly through moments of both absurdist comedy and high dramatic tension. Some of the credit belongs to director Warren Browner, who had chosen to de-emphasize the play's surrealism and treat it more as a parody of those cheerfully resilient American types, forced for once to confront and destroy the product of their own invested values...
...Pearey has taken big risks: working in color, he has made a film that is polished without being slick; concentrating on faces he has handled an intensely emotionaly issue without getting sentimental or manipulative. When you see a grower, John Giumarra, ride out to the picket line to confront the UFW on a golf cart with dollars signs painted on the sides and front, you suddenly remember that he put those dollar signs there--not a director. Fighting for Our Lives is filled with moments like that. No one had to hire extras to play sheriffs in Kern and Tulare...
Although they did not dominate last week's headlines, many other nagging problems confront U.S. foreign policy. In the Eastern Mediterranean, for example, all parties to the Cyprus dispute remain antagonistic toward the U.S. The Greeks are angered because the U.S. long supported the deposed right-wing junta and did not act to stop the Turkish invasion of Cyprus; in protest, the new Greek government pulled out of the NATO military command. The Turks are furious because the U.S. cut off military aid after they invaded Cyprus; they have threatened to close U.S. bases in Turkey. At the Ford Administration...
...long deferred impulse led me to confront my more journalistically practiced juniors, if only to determine the meaning of 'Comp.' But I never dared ask until a few days later, when actually requested to write up for publication the thoughts I'd garbed out that night, unprepared to justify my presence, at The Crimson...