Word: ende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Track competitors had an especially frustrating time preparing for their races. Frequently they would warm up only to end up waiting in a cold concrete room for 30 minutes before the start of their events. Said Ron Davis, 22, a 400-meter man: "The Soviet athletes are used to being told to take off their sweats, then stand in the wind for ten minutes. We aren't. Maybe we have to get used...
...end, both the music and text were upstaged by the magic. Several of Houdini's feats, including his water-can escape, were authentically and grippingly duplicated by Mark Mazzarella, a 19-year-old college sophomore. But the cost of going for such theatrical pizazz was a loss of psychological depth. Houdini offered almost no plot, almost no human interplay. Throughout the evening, a large portrait of the magician stared out at the performers from the ear of the stage, as if challenging them to account for his mysterious driven nature. The tricks, the career, the public appropriation...
...nearly 18, but she looks the youngest; in the Malick film, shot three years ago, she seems no older than twelve. Brooke Shields, 14, appeared in Alice, Sweet Alice at nine. Tatum O'Neal, who is 15 now, broke into the big time at nine, playing her dead-end father Ryan's dead-end kid in Paper Moon. Some of the roles these child-women have taken are precociously and shockingly erotic, and some are proper and conventional. But whatever they are asked to do, these surprising children and their adventurous directors are showing the camera new ways to look...
Hardly a month before, Margaret O'Brien had appeared in Meet Me in St. Louis, contributing a turn that combined show-biz razzle-dazzle and pulverizing emotional honesty. Her Halloween night walk down to the dark end of the street, toward an old house that loomed before her with the architecture of every childhood nightmare and the threat of every young uncertainty, was as scary and as true as movie acting ever gets...
...figure of unintentional transition. After the war directors like Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica took kids right off the streets of Rome. In England, Director Carol Reed put Bobby Henrey in Graham Greene's exacting psychological study, The Fallen Idol, which was about the abrupt and shattering end of childhood...