Word: expections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect some 21st century director to filch a scene from Little Vera the way David Lean, Brian De Palma and others have quoted the Odessa Steps sequence from Eisenstein's Potemkin. For one thing, critical realism, the style of most glasnost films, eschews the bold editing effects and pristine iconography of the Soviet silents. But style is subordinate to message just now: the priority is journalism, not art. To U.S. eyes, the rebels without a cause in an alienated-teen drama like Valeri Ogorodnikov's The Burglar are a sight as nostalgic as Hula-Hoops. But in the U.S.S.R. these...
...danger is in believing Klimov and his colleagues can produce an ideal creative climate. But Soviet filmmakers know not to expect too much. In Vyacheslav Krishtofovich's poignant comedy Lonely Woman Searching for a Life Companion, a seamstress places a personal ad on walls around her town. The results are dire. The first man to answer the ad insults her, tries to rob her and then leeches on her kind nature. A trio of Young Pioneers, encouraged to take pity on the "sick and the lonely," offers to take her for walks in the countryside. She nearly loses...
...deal with the drudgery of daily life infuriates Shinkaretsky. "We shouldn't have to put up with these things," he says, tightening his jaw in anger. "And our society should recognize that it is we who are to blame. Instead of being consumer-minded, many people are parasites. They expect to be given good food, good roads and good education, but they don't want to push for anything themselves. This is a revolution, and no one will do your revolution for you." Bidding a quick goodbye, Shinkaretsky is off again, this time to visit one of the city...
Upon arrival, there was a mix-up over the Black and White's rooming accommodations at the 32nd Street Naval Base. The heats for the light-weight event, cancelled because CalPoly scratched, threw Radcliffe directly into the final with no idea of what to expect from the other crews. And a vicious rumour in an inaccurate program made some rowers think that they had to weigh 125 lbs. (instead of 130) to make weight for the regatta...
Babbitt was one of the most liberal candidates in the Democratic field, a strong proponent of child care, poverty programs and military cut-backs. If a candidate who backs issues that a majority of women have supported can make such offensive remarks, how can a woman expect to be taken seriously, by anyone...