Word: darknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leander Perez's power has passed down to one of his sons, 55-year-old Chalin, president of the five-man parish Commission Council. Unlike his flamboyant father, Chalin comes across as a dark-suited conservative lawyer. His is not the voice of a segregationist, but of a typical official with very rich constituents. "We are one of the most overemployed areas in the United States," he says. And it is true that there are plenty of jobs for blacks as well as whites in the oil and sulfur companies, in fishing and orange growing. "We try to maintain...
...speed car chase through downtown Los Ange les for 20 minutes without attracting a single squad car, when you or I get hauled in just for failing to make a left-turn signal? How come Hill insists on making the leading lady (Isabelle Adjani) so enigmatic, so much the dark lady of a thou sand bad screenplays, that the entire audience giggles every time she talks without moving her lips? And, finally, how come the Department of Energy didn't shut this picture down? It must have cost Kuwait's entire monthly output to fuel this non sense...
Smaller powers are more likely to provide viable dark-horse candidates. Despite his age, 73, and his Shermanesque talk of refusing election, Austria's Franz Cardinal König remains a possibility. Spain's Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancon, 71, Archbishop of Madrid, has won a reputation as a courageous, liberalizing leader who declined to officiate at Franco's funeral but pointedly helped to crown King Juan Carlos. In a stalemate, the "Iberian bloc"-Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American votes-could swing behind him. A favorite of many in Latin America and elsewhere is Brazil...
...references to Lennon-McCartney songs, Webber's music is evocative and often catchy. Prince's staging is more problematical. Using a large company and rear-projected newsreel footage, the director has created some undeniably powerful tableaux: Evita's political rallies, her death and funeral have a dark and chilling majesty. But Prince is capable of sinking to Rice's simplistic level: Argentina's aristocratic class is symbolized by a phalanx of chorus people who seem to have stepped out of the Ascot Gavotte number of My Fair Lady. The director also cannibalizes his own previous...
...story he spins out is not a tribute to the human imagination. The germinal public schools were founded in the Dark Ages, and then stayed rooted there well into this century. Originally extensions of churches and monasteries, set up to train some boys as choristers and others as clergy, the schools were anachronistic by the 16th century. Their curriculum consisted of little but the classics, drilled by rote into chilled, hungry, stupefied boys...