Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer lies in what I consider the major flaw in the film, namely Sontag's almost complete ignorance of the realities of Israeli politics. She doesn't tell us anything because she doesn't really know anything. Her quick montage shots are feeble attempts at providing authenticity through naturalistic detail...
...Watergate debacle has pointed up yet another flaw in our system of Government: with a four-year presidential term, you just don't have enough time to impeach...
Stephen Aaron's direction is intelligent, fluid, and painstaking. The orchestra, under Arthur Finstein's musical direction, is as successful as the singers it accompanies. Linda Martin's costumes enhance the personality of each character, and Zack Brown's ingenious set has only one troublesome flaw: A screen showing the descriptions Brecht wrote for each scene--a means of emphasizing that the drama existed in the performance and not in the accident of suspense--is impossible to read from the lower rows or the side sections...
...containing, in the Chorus' Prologue, the playwright's own view of the overall import of the sad outcome, which he attributes to evil destiny and the parents' feud. Romeo and Juliet themselves are not tragic figures in the classical sense. It is the parents who exhibit a "tragic flaw," and thus are made to suffer through the needless loss of their children...
...flaw in Tarnopol is that as a book boy, he has "fallen in love with those complicated fictions of moral anguish" he keeps reading about. The depths of tragedy-that, Tarnopol thinks, is what an artist and a man must plumb. He yearns romantically to be a golden loser as well as a golden winner. Furthermore, he has a notion that one must prove one's manhood, not on the battlefields of war (like old-style machismo novelists) but in the combat zones of love. Nor is he fantasizing sexual conquest. For, paradoxically, what woman represents to Tarnopol...