Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think there's a doubt in anyone's mind that we should win this game," Crimson Captain Scott Fusco says...
...managed to follow all of this, you will no doubt be able to understand why Joan Wilder, romance author extraordinaire, would want to help our hapless holy man escape from Omar's clutches, and walk all the way across the desert and up several steep cliffs just so she, Al, Jack and Ralph (Danny DeVito), whom they've managed to pick up somewhere along the way, can crash Omar's laser show and present the real jewel to his adoring public...
...Brazil (the name comes from a song which the hero is fond of singing) takes place, tragedy and absurdity are inextricably mixed, as is evident from the very first scenes. Early on, we are taken deep into the bowels of the Ministry of Information a bureaucratic, Leviathan institution no doubt based on Orwell's Ministry of Truth. A fastidious technician is clambering over an enormous teletype machine while in pursuit of an equally enormous, noisy fly, which he dispatches with his shoe. The fly falls into the machine, and causes it to type the name "Buttle" instead of "Tuttle...
This effect is no doubt intentional on Gilliam's part, for what he has crafted here is a tribute to the human imagination. Though the body may be shocked, beaten and tortured with a power drill, the mind is still free to escape. As is apparent in the final scene, where he soars through the clouds in a torture chair singing "Brazil," Lowry's mind gets away...
Glimcher, a Children's Hospital and Medical Center orthopedist, stressed the same point. "None of the senior people are involved [in the strike]. I doubt that there are a significant number who are participating within the University system," he said...