Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spells, but we have no idea what they're aimed against. (After consulting a critique of L. P. Hartley, the novelist on whose book the screenplay is based, the chants seem wearisome conceits in both book and movie). A pivotal relationship, that of Marion and her mother, is barely drawn; and it is not clear what happened to Ted Burgess, though he probably committed suicide...
...Whether convicts are political prisoners or not, a parallel can be drawn between the lives of George Jackson and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Jackson was certainly the victim in life, and quite possibly in his death, of "superiors" who hated and feared his ideology, as Solzhenitsyn is a victim of Soviet bigwigs who fear, or suspect, the power of his pen. Both were subjected unjustly to long, dehumanizing years in prison systems that try to destroy those who won't conform. Solzhenitsyn has survived, so far. Jackson did not but his letters show that his death was a waste...
Horsecarts and Hypocrites. In fact, the fair offered politics as well as pommes frites. Hulking busts of Lenin sold for $4.50. There was a 15-hour marathon in the central committee tent where party leaders held political discussions with all comers. A horse-drawn street theater had a cart full of guillotine-bound "Communards" hurling defiance at costumed cavalrymen; the purpose was to commemorate the 1871 Paris Commune, which controlled the city for 71 days before its primitive brand of Communism was crushed by troops...
Doubly Desirable. Obviously, such a condition cannot long endure. No problem is too great for the artist to run away from; Bob flees to America. The amours he left behind may have been miserable with him; without him they are desolate. From this uncompromising situation, Gilliatt has drawn blood. Her dialogue is literate but not precious, unbowdlerized but not prurient. Through her characters' recognizability they become memorable...
...high time for the airlines to do something to fill their half-empty seats, to meet fierce price competition from nonscheduled charter airlines and to pass on to the passenger some of the new jumbo jets' tremendous economies of scale. But as the drawn-out negotiations last summer in Montreal showed, few airline managements could agree on what should be done. Now they may have little choice but to follow Lufthansa's lead...