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...Waterston makes a gentle, intelligent Nick, but the role is largely passive. The movie's sharpest characterization is Bruce Bern's Tom Buchanan, a figure of imperiousness, steeped in contempt that comes from too much ease, too much money. When he and Gatsby confront Daisy in a hotel room one afternoon, the film catches the intensity that Fitzgerald conveyed in the sculpted contours of his prose...
...note once told me that he found he had an overpowering urge to abandon a project of psychic research (concerned with reverse time) just when he felt that he was near a breakthrough. He had a panicky need to back away from the abyss before he was forced to confront its terrifying implications. He said: "I was scared witless that I was about to look into the face...
Eventually, of course, Wilson must confront some hard decisions. In the budget message later this month, he will have to indicate which programs will be slashed or which taxes raised to provide the funds for his generous welfare increases. He also faces potential union unrest. There is the danger that the hefty wage boost he granted to the coal miners (up to 30% in some cases) will embolden other workers when their contracts expire this year. This could land Wilson in the same dilemma that led to Heath's recent electoral defeat: a battle with the unions to restrain...
...teams will meet each other, rather than confront non-league squads, which have had a chance to jell in earlier games...
...stick into it" lets a man spit in his face as a condition to a donation, and later shoots himself, uttering somebody else's last words. These people have the poetic, imaginative quality of other Brecht characters, but the fantasy Chicago of this early Brecht play doesn't confront the issues of the usual Brechtian world...