Word: director
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chou Pei-Yuan, a physicist and former president of Peking University, is leading the delegation. Ezra F. Vogel, professor of Sociology and director of the East Asian Research Center, said yesterday Chou is "the foremost academic figure in China...
...University Health Services (UHS) is investigating several recent cases of salmonella poisoning which may have been contracted in the Freshman Union, Dr. Sholem Postel, assistant director of UHS, said yesterday...
...much else seems right. Quite unnecessarily, Director Bergman has burdened Eva with a dead four-year-old son to mourn and a hideously crippled younger sister whose affliction in some vague way appears to be Charlotte's fault It is hard not to feel that these characters were included to make points already well established by the interaction of the two main figures. Eva's husband, who has little to do but smoke his pipe and look wise, is another minor irritation. The result is something close to triteness...
...plot is not the point. Horváth, who died in 1938, transports us to the world of George Grosz's biting satirical portraits of the bloated German bourgeoisie. Director Keith Hack paces the play with caustic Brechtian briskness, and the large cast ably meets that demand. Scene follows scene in revue fashion, and each blackout brings on the string quartet. At first the music seems endearing. Later, the juxtaposition becomes ominous as the waltzes seem more and more like a smiling mask shielding a leper's face...
...Instead, Belushi pops up in only a few scenes where he can show off his Mexican accent and look sleazy. Expanding the part, or casting Belushi in a more prominent role, might well have saved the movie from becoming a low-budget exercise in the training of Jack Nicholson, director. But that's just how it wound up: filming more of the familiar amber-and-brown-soaked Texas landscapes doesn't seem a sufficiently compelling reason for making a movie, much less watching it. To have wasted a talent as versatile and fresh as Belushi's in a cameo role...