Word: fabricate
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...movie takes off on a more obviously melodramatic course. It brings on the machine's creator, now turned so cynical that he believes mankind ought to get on with its ultimate death-wish drama. Overplayed by an eye-rolling John Wood, this burned-out genius rips the delicate fabric of believability that the picture has woven, turns Coleman's character into an onlooker, and makes David's climactic confrontation with WOPR more silly than suspenseful...
Duvall, a gifted, risk-taking actor for 20 years (Apocalypse Now, Tender Mercies), plays men whose rage seems about to explode from their guts. Always Duvall watches, looking for the tiniest tear in society's fabric. As the entrepreneur of Angelo My Love, he has found a dozen spirited gypsies tumbling out of that hole, victimized by their historical typecasting as scavengers and scoundrels...
...missiles in Europe independently of the military organizations of the countries involved? For good or ill, the futures of the NATO countries are inextricably intertwined. This is not true in only a military sense. The common interests of the Western democracies have multiplied since 1945. The economic and social fabric of the Atlantic alliance grows stronger each year. Any disruption of this unified situation can only be viewed in a negative light--and the remote possibility of a Soviet invasion through West Germany is the most negative...
...vital to the mood changes as the portrayal of the characters' newly acquired nasty spirits and nasty habits (smoking, drinking, adultery) are the set and clothing switches. The furniture in Acts I and III is light and fabric-covered--vintage 1919. The costumes, too, come from a lost age of youth--especially the gaily colored blousy dresses that look as though they were lifted from an Impressionist canvas. But by 1938 the room in which the entire play takes place is furnished with heavy leather couches and chairs. The bright dresses have given way to dark, somber, serious business suits...
When Gray's stint began, personal obstacles mirrored the professional ones; he moved into primitive quarters because of a housing shortage, and his wife had to face the adjustment to a country where women spend their lives covered from head to toe in several layers of black fabric. They were still getting their bearings when a prince, a special friend of the king's needed treatment for an ulcer. His high status and the awkward timing made the doctor's visit a test case for the entire hospital. Dr. Hugh Compton, the hospital's director of medical affairs, told...