Word: control
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally it is Bradley's turn to speak. Back in control, he relaxes; surrounded by supporters, relatives and old buddies, he tells a story about being alone. "I cannot tell you how many hours I spent in this space," he says, looking around the gym. "After one night when we lost, early the next morning I was back." He'd come by himself to work on his shooting. "The bleachers were still pulled out, there were popcorn boxes on the floor, and I felt I was home--in the place I spent more time than any other...
...gallows. The film retains both the Russian Revolution parallels and Orwell's timeless warnings against slippery language and manipulation; in a clever if heavy-handed addition, pigs salvage a TV set from the farmhouse to keep the animals docile. And the filmmakers use ingenious images to dramatize how image control is essential to tyrants. When the hog Napoleon (voiced by Patrick Stewart) becomes absolute dictator, his apotheosis is celebrated by a martial chorus of foot-stomping ducks in a perfect and hilarious imitation of a Stalinist propaganda musical...
...irony of insurance is that mostly it protects against things we can control but not against things we can't control. Whoops! Burn down the manse with an unattended iron, and the typical policy covers you. But if heavy rain overwhelms a storm sewer that backs up into your home or business and destroys all, well, sorry. Claims adjusters are now delivering that message to thousands of people, including the Kadlecs, trying to wring out Hurricane Floyd from their carpets...
...anarchic, adolescent recklessness that barely knows what it's fighting for or why. Instead of self-awareness, Henry has guts; instead of purpose, passion. Taking time out from a battle, he loses his virginity, then leaps to his feet for more shooting--a gushing life force barely in control of its own flow...
Doyle, however, is always in control. His sentences lunge but never break the leash, animated by wild but wise high spirits. "God waited for no baby in the slums. He took them back as soon as He'd given them, but He threw them away if their souls were still stained. He delivered them soiled but expected them back spotless." Even better than Doyle's epigrams, though, are his lengthy battle scenes, which are both chaotic and precise, capturing the fog of war as well as the warrior's uncanny clarity. Sneaking through the darkened countryside, holing up in safe...