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...review, Octavio Paz described Los Olvidados as "implacable as the silent march of lava." I can't imagine a more apt metaphor to convey its impact. Famous scenes: the gang of young boys tormenting a blind man; Pedro's dream (more powerful and more complex than any described by Freud); the "second chance" offered by the liberal reformatory...
...impact is all the more terrible. Finally, Cicely Tyson, whose muted fury was the driving force in Sounder, plays Miss Jane. Once again she demonstrates (even when handicapped by an old-age makeup that is literally too thick to believe) that she is a subtly skilled actress who can convey not just the history of a character in a gesture or an inflection, but an entire century's cruelty and bravery as well...
Both Cross and an Adams House senior said that Kiely had asked them to convey what he had said about the exam format to other people...
...office, interrupting a piece to take a telephone subscription order, and shows Esther Stone, his wife and the Weekly's circulation manager, sorting bills on their living room table. Unfortunately, one thing the film never shows is a printed edition of the Weekly. Bruck missed an obvious opportunity to convey the flavor of Stone's publication...
...imagine what happens when Allen slips on one of those banana peels. It is almost impossible, however, to convey the intricacy of his comic inventiveness, the shrewdness with which he sustains his comic lines. The simplest measure of Sleeper's success is perhaps the fact that one recalls it not by quoting Allen's one-liners but by trying to describe-inadequately-his beautifully built visual gags...