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...understanding that he and everyone connected with both movies have already achieved his life's ambition. Once again, the cheeky, satirical spirit that animated the hit Broadway show has been dispensed with. The new film, like its predecessor has as its sole aim the corruption of chil dren under the age of 14. Not that it will impair them morally. No, the aim is to generate false, commercialized nostalgia br what is made to seem a simpler, yet more colorful teen time than their own. The movie strains and strains for the effect Gregory's Girl achieves without...
...amidst the last flowering of Viennese culture. He knew the writer Karl Kraus; he was painted by Oskar Kokoschka and treated by Psychiatrist Alfred Adler. Yet by choice and necessity, he remained a soul apart. He lived a frugal, ascetic life with his wife and four chil dren, eking out his income by teaching, by doing hack jobs for his music pub lisher and by conducting. He had a mea sure of success on the podium despite his distaste for the hubbub of the per forming life. He demanded unusual expressive nuances from his players, especially in the pianissimo range...
...hours be tween, the show charts the lives of four generations of the author's family. The first segment ends with the death of Kun ta Kinte's grandson, Chicken George (Avon Long); by the final episode the viewer has briefly seen Haley's own chil dren. As before, public events are dramatized in terms of their effect on one black family. But the post-Civil War his tory covered by Roots 11 is less melodramatic than the slavery era chronicled in Roots 1. As Producer Stan Margulies, 58, explained to TIME Correspondent Robert Goldstein...
...also likes a good explosion or two. Halfway along comes a percussive cataclysm that shakes the rafters like a latter-day The Rite of Spring. At the end, the glistening harmonics from three solo violins perched high in a rear balcony evoke a paradisiacal kingdom where the chil dren of light will reign...
...teacher, nicely played by Betty Buckley, rescues her and punishes her tormentors with extrastrenuous work outs, which naturally leads the dear chil dren to plot still deeper humiliation for Carrie. The idea is to rig her election as prom queen and destroy her at her moment of unexpected triumph...