Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some neighbors we have," presumably meaning those troublesome Chinese. His theory is a sort of global extension of the fact that most murders occur within families or close circles of acquaintances. It also contains a beguilingly sinister suggestion that mutual understanding, that canon of civilized thought, can be fatal...
...Henning Kristiansen's astonishing photography-a gothic mix of melancholy blue landscapes and pale, crumbling interiors-only serve to underline the film's deficiency, the utter lack of logic. Random composition is all very well in contemporary art; in the traditional thriller, it is an unwanted and fatal guest...
...sophomore Graham Arader who has advanced from fourth place during the season. The Bulldogs have experience at the two and three positions with captain Jay Bryan and junior Bob Stevens. Yale has thus far been weak beyond number four, and considering Harvard's depth, that should be a fatal flaw...
...thinks numerous contenders for the presidential nomination would not jeopardize the peace movement. He calls for a "depersonalization of candidates," But the multiplicity of candidates is another indication of the fragmentation of the peace movement; and the failure to come up with a strong and attractive personality may prove fatal. Me Carthy can do a great deal to win support for a peace candidate. But his 1968 campaign, which he refers to with dismal regularity, was a failure, and McCarthy himself was largely to blame. His running again would be another depressing example of egoistic interests clouding the cause...
...good old Warner Brothers hack, Clavell lets the atmosphere seep in as his story rides, doesn't try to obfuscate the dialogue, and relies squarely on his camera only in climactic moments. Since the film is an epic, there are many of them: gruesome treks, battle scenes and fatal individual combats. There is little of the David Lean-William Wyler pretension strangling itself in technicolor and wallowing in bathos...