Word: forcefullness
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The American Film Theatre's first three filmed plays were straightforward transcriptions of the original play scripts. But Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros received a different treatment. The script was tampered with. New scenes were added, old dialogue was cut. Names and settings were Americanized, and pop music was introduced. The...
Stone is equally forceful in outrage or ridicule. About Nixon, Stone writes: In a realm of discourse in which words have lost all normal meaning, it is not surprising to hear that Nixon also told [C.L.] Sulzberger [of The New York Times], "I rate myself a deeply committed pacifist." Many...
In ending his exile, Dylan once more takes up his subtle revolution. His fans, nurtured on unstructured polemic and cinema verite, are being invited on a new journey, and if their expectant faces are to be believed, they are ready to follow. Each night on the tour, Dylan receives an...
Fried Fish. Ervin was a forceful foe of Senator Joe McCarthy when he was indulging in his red-baiting excesses. Ervin was a principal backer of the Bail Reform Act of 1966 that allowed poor people to remain out of jail before their trials if they were reasonable risks. Over...
The makeup of the junta remained something of a mystery. The new President was a relatively unknown army officer, Lieut. General Phaedon Gizikis (who was promoted to full general three days after the coup). But he did not seem to be a particularly forceful figure; in fact he went out...