Word: dwelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faintly in the distance, it is difficult to dwell on South Florida's problems...
...dwell on the performances is to admit the ultimate failure of Forman's enterprise. His commitment to the actors allows them the time to bring their characters to quirky behavioral life, but every reaction shot, every unfinished phrase or repeated sentence means that many moments stolen from the Doctorow overview. Forman has taken as gospel the novel's epigraph-Scott Joplin's admonition, "It is never right to play ragtime fast"-reduced a pageant to an anecdote, and sacrificed sweep for nuance. Grateful as one is to have this Ragtime, with its many thrilling performances...
...SHIFT TO THE RIGHT may take a while to affect housing issues, for a homeowner can support rent control without direct cost. But an increasingly large percentage of the city's elite dwell in condominiums, and it is at least possible that out of a sense of identification, they will support the right of others to purchase their apartments, a right denied under existing city legislation designed to protect the city's rental housing stock. A test of condo owner sentiments will be support for Mary Allen Wilkes in the November election. A former CCA member, Wilkes now is billed...
DIED. Heinz Kohut, 68, controversial Vienna-born psychoanalyst who broke with Freudian orthodoxy and attracted a cult following with his "self-psychology," which insisted that the analyst should bolster a healthy narcissism in patients and not dwell on the traditional Oedipal conflicts; of heart disease; in Chicago...
...dwell excessively on True Confessions' failings is to treat it--and the viewer--unfairly. De Niro alone makes the experience worthwhile. The role is somewhat uncharacteristic; as a priest, he must keep his emotions and lusts hidden, but their supression makes them that much more interesting. The desire for power dominates Des, consumes him; he revels in bureaucratic wars as well as more public displays of his control. Yet the genius of De Niro's Des is that he knows how badly he wants power, and he senses how tenuous his position might be--in both practical and moral terms...