Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Things looked up after that; how could they not? Johnny landed the Barbarino role in Kotter and started his steep, fast climb. He was passed over for a role he badly wanted in The Last Detail but won a prime supporting part in Director Brian DePalma's nightmare fairy tale, Carrie. He had already broken up with Marilu, but while working on Carrie he had become the hottest hood on TV since The Fonz. Four-color posters were being printed, and record contracts were in negotiation...
...central character, Freed, is enigmatic to a fault. McIntyre expresses nearly every emotion except pure elation by contorting his face as he exhales his cigarette smoke. To exhibit elation he does not exhale the smoke at all. Only by careful attention to this detail can one discern any emotion in the man's character...
Because the play takes place over a long period of time, providing only momentary glimpses at a given stage in any character's life, U.S.A. poses major dramatic problems. The script provides only stereotyped outlines for the characters, leaving any detail or fleshing-out to the cast-members--each of whom plays several different roles. But as stereotypes go, U.S.A.'s emerge acceptably. Although few of the players succeed in developing their roles beyond superficial characterization, most of the stereotypes they portray are themselves enjoyable...
...script is well served by Director Martin Ritt (Sounder, The Front), who has collaborated with Cinematographer John Alonzo and Production Designer Robert Luthardt to paint the colorful Louisiana and New Mexico settings in crisp detail. Ritt has the good sense to stretch out the tense race sequences (with slow motion, if necessary) and gallop by the story's mawkish father-son, brother-brother and child-horse confrontations. He even gets away with the overheated scenes that depict the star colt's birth and its mother's untimely death...
...subcommittee's research reveals the inadequacy of the notion of American corporations effecting reform while remaining in South Africa. In 1976, Clark sent questionnaires to 260 firms operating in South Africa, asking for details of their labor, promotion, training and wage policies. One might expect that firms with especially poor records on racial policies would not reply to these queries. In fact, only about 30 per cent of the firms responded. Of that 30 per cent, some gave very incomplete and sketchy answers, and even among the companies that supplied sufficient documentation and detail, the report states there is "little...