Word: framings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hindu religiosity has not fully appeared, and at the end of it he is assassinated. His character has a marmoreal smoothness throughout; he lacks all the chinks in personality which would indicate to us his humanity and instead we have to find that in his paltry frame. In fact, the closest the movie approaches to any substantive character development comes early on, when in South Africa Gandhi pushes his wife around for balking at cleaning the latrines in his ashram. Gandhi quickly apologizes and the scene fades. From that point onward, Gandhi appears to take never a false step...
...trouble began Tuesday afternoon when officers visited the house at 2239 Shannon in response to a phone tip about a shoplifter. They failed to find the suspect. But later, they were called back to the brick and frame dwelling to answer a complaint from one of the cult members about the police's handling of the investigation. As two officers entered the house, the occupants jumped them, and shots were exchanged. One officer put out a call for help, which was answered by two more policemen. When all four officers were inside the house, a short gun battle took...
Brisbon has 90 well-supervised minutes each day outside his small (7 ft. 7 in. by 5 ft. 10 in.) cell. He works out with weights, keeping his 155 lbs. (on a 5-ft 9-in. frame) in shape. He complains about his confinement: "Can't take two steps in this cage. It's inhuman. And that dull-ass color blue on the walls in no way brightens my life." He has devised a novel idea about judicial reform: "All this talk about victims' rights and restitution gets me. What about my family...
...Clever). This apparently signifies Parsifal's transformation from a callow youth to a hero, as Krick's grim, Joan of Arc visage emphasizes. Yet the device, like so many others in the film, is arbitrary. Wagner's opera is merely a pretext for the director, a frame on which to hang a murky, convoluted and, finally, not very original cultural thesis. The performance is led with surprising authority and eloquence by the little-known Swiss conductor Armin Jordan and features splendid singing by Tenor Reiner Goldberg as Parsifal and Mezzo Yvonne Minton as Kundry...
PERHAPS BECAUSE of Miller's self-imposed time frame of one night, the almost deadening string of personal revelations may have been unavoidable. But less explanation exists for heavy-handed and calculatingly cryptic soliloquies that includes: "Marion hasn't been the same since the baby died." "I don't think I'm the man I wanted to be." "I wanted my father to respect me" (tears flowing), or, "I'm extremely popular...