Word: enigma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ENIGMA OF FELIX...
...Enigma of Felix Frankfurter attempts a full-scale analysis of this outsize paradox of a man. Author H.N. Hirsch, a Harvard government professor, is to be congratulated on his audacity as well as his scholarship. Psychobiography is a risky undertaking; putting a Supreme Court Justice on the couch is downright breathtaking...
...chameleon." His recondite politics is inevitably labeled Florentine in the press. His most recent biographer, Franz-Olivier Giesbert, described him as "ambivalent." Wrote Giesbert: "He is misanthropic and sociable, naive and calculating, sincere and deceitful." In fact, François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand is as much an enigma to the French, who elected him President of the Republic, as he is to the rest of the world...
...egocentric approach speaks for the severe self-consciousness of many Indians, who see themselves through Western eyes. But, although Indira Gandhi remains an enigma to Western observers, Moraes's accounts of random conservations with Indians about their leader grasp the essential point of her power--her appeal to the purely Indian spirit...
...without ever quite solving it. From the moment Raging Bull introduces its three main characters, the moviegoer knows all there will be to know about them. Jake is the loner with a special, terrible gift he can't control; Joey is weak, loyal and scheming; Vickie is an enigma wrapped in gilt. The first hour of the film sets up the situation with a naturalistic vigor and cinematic resourcefulness unique to Scorsese. He knows precisely how to move the camera, dress a set, direct his splendid actors, underlay the music, edit to keep the viewer off guard and consistently...