Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME'S three Americans abroad represent a special blend of journalistic talent and experience, and they treated their subject with enthusiasm and affection. As caught by Demarest's pen and Mydan's camera, todays China comes alive in rare and memorable fashion...
...Simeonov's countrymen had just come forth with bizarre tales suggestive of a cloak-and-dagger conspiracy concocted by the legendary S.M.E.R.S.H. Since one of the two, Georgi Markov, 49, a friend of Simeonov's and also a BBC broadcaster, had just been murdered in diabolical fashion, Scotland Yard was asking some very stern questions about Simeonov's "fall...
...point. Horváth, who died in 1938, transports us to the world of George Grosz's biting satirical portraits of the bloated German bourgeoisie. Director Keith Hack paces the play with caustic Brechtian briskness, and the large cast ably meets that demand. Scene follows scene in revue fashion, and each blackout brings on the string quartet. At first the music seems endearing. Later, the juxtaposition becomes ominous as the waltzes seem more and more like a smiling mask shielding a leper's face...
...themes of Altman's movies are at variance with American movies' traditional approach to the American experience, they're reinforced by his structure and technique. Unlike most American films, which proceed in straight narrative fashion, Altman's films evolve out of chaos. Instead of leading the viewer down a single path to an inevitable conclusion, Altman presents him with brief glimpses and seemingly unrelated vignettes--the connections become apparent only gradually as the film progresses. The outcomes of Altman's films aren't obviously preordained; they apparently develop out of the vicissitudes of real life...
...Royals in the final inning of the final game, and, in 1977, Royals' Shortstop Fred Patek openly and unashamedly weeping while he sat alone on the bench after another final-game loss to the Yankees. Wait until next year, the Royals' fans kept muttering, in the classic fashion of losers, and now next year begins this week when Kansas City once again gets its chance to win the American League pennant and, at long last, bask in the glory of the World Series...