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That was the issue Mondale seized on. For weeks he has tried to depict Reagan as a dangerously detached leader who skates by the hard problems of governing. The debate provided more ammunition. Mondale told TIME: "The President must have control of the central facts in order to lead his government. If you don't have that, you can't lead...
Comparisons between Country and another American realist film, Places in the Heart, are perhaps inevitable. While both movies depict a family's struggle to hold on to its land in the face of greedy bureaucracy, Places uses this struggle as a tool to develop plot and character. Country, on the other hand, in its overly anxious attempt to convey a political message, fails to give any depth to its characters and leaves us mere ideology in the place...
Buscetta's revelations offered authorities in both the U.S. and Italy a deeper understanding of the ties between the New York and Sicilian Mobs. They challenge the widely held view of the Mafia as a centrally organized entity with branches in the U.S. and Sicily. Instead, they depict it as a looser network of groups in Sicily, the U.S. and elsewhere, linked by a combination of business, personal and family connections. Buscetta's disclosures, in fact, confirmed what investigators had first suspected several years ago, that there are really two Mafia groups working in the U.S.: one composed...
Brookies, whose research focuses on the issues that Black women face in the 1980s, told the predominantly female capacity audience that modern advertising and movies inadequately depict Black women's lives...
Energy−atomic, unharnessed, virulent−abounds in Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater Company revival of Balm in Gilead, the Lanford Wilson dope opera that was first produced in 1965. The set may depict a grungy, all-night coffee shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side, but it soon takes on the sulfurous glow of the lower depths: a rush-hour subway car, say, some time during World War III. Junkies, hookers, drag queens, derelicts, ganefs and hit men rub up against Joe (Danton Stone) and Darlene (Laurie Metcalf), a couple too amiable or dense to survive the Nighttown...