Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carter's decisions to impose economic sanctions and to express displeasure through diplomatic channels are effective nonmilitary ways to check Soviet actions. An inflated military budget, draft registration, and rapid deployment forces give America the illusion of preparedness and allow the U.S. to be more easily led into war, while in reality not adding anything to America's capacity to defend herself...
...himself. But they have the good grace to be self-conscious about their verbal twitchiness. They understand there are more important matters at stake here. As a result, the movie is rather blurred-an owlish comedy, as it were. Yet, if Simon still does not quite trust himself to express his feelings fully, Chapter Two remains thought provoking...
...beneath the smart patter of Simon's dialogue. Moore has given his work a flat, old-fashioned production. And although Mason and Caan are agreeable people, they (and Moore) seem not quite up to the large emotions the film's dark second half requires them to express. Everything is a little too gingerly. In the end, the film must be judged as muted, likable, not all it might have been, but a nice-and terribly decent-try. -Richard Schickel
...fame and fortune he has goofy romantic collisions with a couple of formidable and very amusing ladies, a mean, mean carnival motorcyclist (Catlin Adams), who beats him up, and a virtuous cosmetologist (Bernadette Peters), who plays cornet solos to express her love. He makes and loses a great pile of money, and eventually is rescued from drunken bumdom by his black parents, who are now rich from the money he has been sending home. The rube role works fairly well when Martin remembers to play a harmless nitwit of the Jerry Lewis variety. But that really is not his kind...
Andre must defend his work against repeated claims that such nonrepresentational and non-sculpted work cannot be called art. Actually, his art is important precisely because it is so radically different from traditional sculpture. Andre seeks to express himself in the simplest, most fundamental manner...