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What makes the Loeb show, directed by Sam Samuels, so pleasantly substantial is Samuels's choice of a setting--the lush flesh out the plot and characters with familiar details...
...that it merges medicine and prayer, symbolized by a 60-ft. bronze sculpture of joined hands at the facility's entrance. All doctors and nurses are required to take oaths to "exemplify Christlike character" and abstain from alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs. While they minister to the flesh, specially trained "prayer partners" tend to the mind and spirit. Says Roberts: "We seek to saturate patient treatment in the atmosphere of the power of prayer, both medicine and prayer becoming a single and continuous...
...sign flashes on the screen saying that Napoleon is "the defiant sport of the ocean" and is being "carried to the triumphant Heights of History." One can hardly imagine a less subtle scene. On paper it is embarrassing. Reading this, you would want to dig your fingernails into the flesh of you palm, as if you were hearing some high-pitched screech. But Gance pulls it off, and the potency of the scene defies description...
...overall effect of the characters' interplay fascinates, creating an impression of richness that goes far beyond the superficialities of the average house show. For once the characters aren't so much cardboard as flesh and blood. They seem to be acting out their slow dance for their own benefit, indulging in a graceful minuet apart from the numbing coldness of the killing ground outside. Brought off with impassioned style, by its conclusion Slow Dance has been transformed into a striking danse macabre...
Three Dunster-Mather tacklers waited at the five, unharrassed by Lowell blockers...Levine faked right and plunged to the left corner, buried beneath a mountain of flesh and sweaty plastic...Pontrelli launched himself toward the reddish-blue autumn sky, as the four officials simultaneously signaled a touchdown...