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...asking a good deal of a film to expect it not only to depict history but enhance it. At the start of his new movie, Claude Lelouch seems about to make just such an attempt. And Now My Love begins like a silent movie. In the early years of the century, a Parisian cameraman (Charles Denner) is trying out his marvelous new movie machine in a park. He focuses on a lovely woman (Marthe Keller). In the series of fast cuts that follows, he marries her, she becomes pregnant, and he gets news of the birth of his daughter moments...
...Dragon Lady," on the other hand, seems less convincing than most of Kaplan's other stories, probably because of its setting. While Kaplan excels at capturing the intonations and idiosyncracies of East European refugees, it's harder for her to tellingly depict the problems of growing up Chinese in Vietnam. Or perhaps it's just harder for the reader to empathize with her depiction...
This time the expected did not happen, because Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans saw in the Crossman diaries an opportunity to publish an important document and frustrate censorship at the same time. The diaries are indeed uncharitable: they depict Wilson making major policy decisions without informing the Cabinet, the Queen showing more interest in discussing her Corgi dogs than affairs of state, civil servants hiding important documents from Grossman. But they spill few state or industrial secrets; so prosecution under the Official Secrets Acts or on other grounds would be difficult. Besides, during last year's election campaign Wilson...
...dance three bodies combine to depict a knight jousting--one man represents the horse, the second dancer sitting on his shoulders becomes the rider, and the third is suspended vertically as the lance. The bodies move in tandum as the horse rears and the rider thrusts his lance...
...failed to depict the average pet owner. You failed to give equal time to the countless thousands of animals mistreated or abandoned yearly to face starvation. You mentioned only the human aspects of communicable diseases, but disregarded the untold suffering and painful deaths of diseased animals who placed their faith and reliance on ignorant or disinterested owners...