Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyone can handle both San Francisco and Boston, it is Ozawa. He is at once a demanding orchestral perfectionist-especially brilliant with 20th century music-and a genial man under whom musicians enjoy working. If a flaw could be found in his musical makeup, it is that he often seems to be learning his repertory as he goes along from hall to hall, hotel to hotel. Sometimes the results are scrappy, but more usually they are exciting and blooming with fresh thought...
...book's failure shows itself not in Cyril's character, as such, but in his flaw as an unreliable narrator. Not only does his insensitive greed provoke a climate for disaster (with Hugh's death in a fatal game of masturbatory coupe-corde, and Catherine's descent into madness), but his absolute self-preoccupation and enfuriating blindness deprive the story of its tragic force. Crushing Hawkes's poetry is the dead weight of what he contrives as Cyril's stupid prose...
Glory is the painstaking work of a brilliant young writer who is still testing his skills, as Martin tests experience, "with different acids." Nabokov has mastered so many narrative techniques that one sometimes forgets that like most great novelists, he is usually telling the same story. It is no flaw that Glory resembles Speak, Memory as well as his first novel Mary, and even Ada. In it, as in all his work, he caresses his opulent memory and exalts it. This fresh and graceful book is pervaded by what, in an aside, Nabokov calls "a writer's covetousness...
Miss Redgrave's Mary is regal, nervous, passionate, uncertain - a delicate creature in life who becomes indomitable only in death. Miss Jackson's Elizabeth is cunning, complex, intriguing - a monarch whose desire for power is both a motivating force and a tragic flaw, Otherwise, various men of the court make violent mischief amongst each other on staircases and battlements...
...fatal flaw in the scheme is Writer-Director Richard Brooks, whose previous films (The Blackboard Jungle, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, In Cold Blood) were notable for a kind of insistent pretension unembellished by visual style or intellectual depth. In $ (yes, that's the title), Brooks is not content to make a straight caper movie, which his script might have supported. Instead, he guns for philosophical commentary...