Word: fleetingness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CBS, NBC and ABC have all set up giant, equipment-laden trailers under the town water tower that functions as an antenna. A couple of dozen reporters flock around Press Secretary Jody Powell and Campaign Manager Hamilton Jordan, recording their every word as they conduct a "briefing" alongside the railroad...
The real program opened inauspiciously with the introduction of Mozart's Symphony No. 39 in E flat sounding tentative and timid. Perhaps Stulberg intended to set off the later robust sections of the movement with his restrained opening, but he drew a sound more anemic than richly resonant. During this...
Alfred Hitchcock is 76 now, and the bemused, nightmarish thrillers he has concocted over the years have accomplished more than the director ever intended, perhaps even imagined. Hitchcock will admit to no loftier ambition than entertainment. Nonetheless, his best movies-The Wrong Man, Strangers on a Train, Vertigo, Psycho, The...
The movie ends on a note of tentative renewal. If the despair that has gone before seems too familiar, Jenny's fleeting realization that love is the only salvation seems both easy and forced. The scene that brings her to this insight is a tender sickbed interlude between her...
Even the painstaking habits that annoyed Redford on the set must seem worthwhile now. The director has patiently sought out the inner dynamics of the film's many short scenes involving characters who have no lasting relationship with Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else in the film. His ability to...