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...Alger story, he rises to the top and ends up saving his now repentant brothers. Mark Meredith as Joseph has a superb voice and just enough of the pretty boy look about him to make his putting on sunglasses look like a scene from Risky Business. The one petty fault with his performance is that he looks too much the dreamer even for Joseph, with his eyes and facial expression always off in the distance somewhere, and never with the audience or his fellows...
...Central America. It is an important film because it sheds new light on the sorely stretched "facts" that each week issue from the editorial pages of our leading newspapers. It undoes the welter of complacent opinion, spearheaded by conservative journalists like Shirley Christian and George F. Will, that finds fault with every aspect of the Sandinista regime and urges further U.S. funding of contra activities in the region. And because of several clever decisions by the filmmakers, Living at Risk should have a significant impact on public opinion about Nicaragua--especially, as seems likely at this writing, if it gets...
...Trowbridge's suit had gone to a jury, observers say there is little doubt that the courts would have sided with her, finding Harvard at fault. Unfortunately--for Harvard tenants, certainly, but ultimately for the University as well--the Carol Trowbridge story will never be told because both parties agreed to confidentiality as part of a recent out of court settlement...
...Lanzmann is obsessed with detail. "Excuse me," he will ask. "But what time in the morning was it? Six or seven a.m.? What color were the vans that took the Jews away?" Other critics who find fault with such meticulousness are missing the point of Lanzmann's goal: to render real experience in all its richness--not to interpret or to impose anything else. And these memories, which speak eloquently for themselves, in turn create new memories--from the painful to the exhilarating--for those who hear them...
...didn't think I deserved the penalty," Fusco said. "The guy's head hit the corner of the glass. It's not my fault that rink's designed that...