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...addition to the lack of morale in some of the actors, technical difficulties also reveal the movie's low-budget nature. Glare plagues the outdoor scenes and the tone and volume of the sound changes erratically...
Agca laughed briefly a few times, but the smile would then quickly fade from his face. In the first months after the assassination attempt, there had been in Agca's eyes a zealot's burning glare. But now his face wore a confused, uncertain expression, never hostile. The Pope clasped Agca's hands in his own from time to time. At other times he grasped the man's arm, as if in a gesture of support...
When the First Family is out of town, as it was last week, the lights on the White House lawn are usually dark. But at dusk last Thursday the grounds came brilliantly alight. Caught in the glare were seven sand-filled Government trucks that set up barricades at the mansion's gates. At the State Department, similar drastic security measures were in effect. The precautions were sparked by a bomb threat received by the FBI. It coincided with a review of security prompted by the October truck bombing in Beirut and the terrorist blast that left a gaping hole...
...terms, though, Ike seemed archaic and gray. The virile young man in top hat who rode with him down Pennsylvania Avenue in 1961 had promised to "get the country moving again." That bright Inauguration Day, Kennedy brought Robert Frost to read a special poem for the occasion. The glare of sun on new-fallen snow bunded the aged poet, and so he recited another poem from memory. The poem he did not read that day contained these lines for the Kennedy...
...Major, Celia Jaffe stands out from the crowd with a strong and effective portrayal of the authoritarian. Establishment character. Her commanding, venomous glare is not enough, however, to elicit reaction from Captain Starkey (Jim Torres). His performance as the protagonist tends to fall flat; reciting his lines as quickly as cued. Torres' overeagerness suppresses any natural emotion. Since he fails to carry the cathartic climax, one leaves the dining hall unsatisfied rather than unsettled and meditative...