Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is not an outtake from one of Calvin Klein's erotic "Obsession" commercials or a Duran Duran video. This luscious footage comes direct from Bernardo Bertolucci's latest film, The Last Emperor...
Huston has precisely duplicated onscreen both the simple two-part structure of Joyce's story and much of its dialogue. The old Hollywood adventurer's mood and motives do not compromise Joyce's vision; they tactfully illuminate it. Indeed, Huston's handling of this material is so direct, artless and unassertive that one's first enthusiasm for it is tempered by doubt. Perhaps our desire that his last movie represent the best of his several selves is coloring our reaction. Mistrust, however, must yield to Huston's trust of his medium, his material and himself...
...also collapsed last week after 14 opposition parties walked out, charging that the government had not responded to their proposals for constitutional reform. The events dulled the impact of Ortega's promise to observe a two-day Christmas truce and to send "technical advisers" to participate this week in direct talks with the contras...
...family man who listens to his children. Last June, when the country erupted in protest after Chun designated Roh the ruling party's presidential candidate, his 21-year-old son Jae Heon influenced his decision to propose direct presidential elections. Jae Heon is a student at Seoul National University, a hotbed of antigovernment student activism. "My son is very critical at times," Roh noted last summer. But after the candidate championed democracy, his son said for the first time, "Father, I respect you." Roh's daughter So Young, 26, is a graduate student at the University of Chicago...
...prosecutor had erupted in anger during the trial when Shultz steadfastly defended Deaver's integrity. The secretary testified that Deaver contacted him on behalf of a lobbying client but lauded Deaver's "very direct, honest approach...