Word: fates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blithe Humor. Hearts of the West, Director Howard Zieff's second movie, abounds in happy eccentricity and cleverness, blithe good humor about fate and a buoyant faith in the happy ending. Lewis, the dumb but ingratiating innocent, is treated with the sort of subdued affection that never becomes condescending. The movie is well served too by an engaging Jeff Bridges and an altogether nifty cast of freshly minted characters, among whom Alan Arkin may be observed in full and wondrous cry. Arkin appears as an unctuous, anxious director named Kessler, a creation of devastating sardonic accuracy. His directions...
...inaccessible. It is like hearing someone describe an LSD trip: the cosmic hoo-ha is all there, but the listener cannot experience it in the retelling. Deprived of the heavenly choir of theosophical documents, all too many of Kupka's transcendental visions finish as pattern-not an ignoble fate, but less than he intended...
Freshman year, Kubacki couldn't play because of shoulder problems. Sophomore year, he played in two JV games until, as fate would have it, another injury put him out for the season...
...time, enjoying everything and everyone he can. His teammates will tell you that Kubacki is "loose" in a huddle. It is the looseness that comes, perhaps, from living with the uncertainty of whether he will be able to play or not, form believing, not in fate or manipulation, but only--and very quietly--in himself...
...conservative and prudish bunch. "This is the wasteland!" the girl beside me at the gallery tsked disapprovingly. Look at the gorgeous colors, I wanted to say, look at the hypnotic use of Rowlux plastic, the bold. creamy black outlines. But the girl had shuffled away mumbling apocalyptically about the fate of modern...