Word: goodnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hedge on majority rule and executive highhandedness. "There is no character on earth more elevated and pure than that of a learned and upright judge. He exerts an influence like the dews of heaven falling without observation," said Daniel Webster, no doubt casting his eyes heavenward. Definitions of a good judge read like recommendations for sainthood: compassionate yet firm, at once patient and decisive, all wise and upstanding...
...bilingual education, first expressed in a dissenting opinion, was later adopted by the Supreme Court. In an opinion in an obscenity case, he once wrote: "The censor and the illegal police raiding party are even less welcome in this country than the peddler of execrable sex materials, and with good cause...
After a series of strike-outs like last year's Same Time, Next Year and California Suite, Alan Alda has finally made good. In The Seduction of Joe Tynan -forget the dreadful title-he at last gives a movie performance that captures the brittle tenderness of his work on TV's M*;A*;S*H. As Tynan, a likable liberal Senator from New York, Alda usually ends up on the side of right, yet he manages to take the sanctimoniousness out of heroism. His Senator is self-critical, unpretentious and witty. He also looks great in a three...
Curiously, British Playwright Tom Stoppard has used the same metaphor to make essentially the same point in his Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1977), a 70-minute theater piece for actors and orchestra. Stoppard enlivened his schematic political lesson with wit, and so, at times, does Fellini. In the film's first half, a visiting TV documentary team interviews the musicians and gets a lively response. A flutist turns a cartwheel. A drummer attacks the piano as a "chatterbox." An insomniac trumpeter confides that with his instrument, "a clinker is death." Once anarchy takes hold, however, the idiosyncratic individuals...
...gays as generously as it accepts the girl's rectitudinous parents. Though the gays must make eccentric adjustments to the exigencies of living, their behavior is viewed as no more unusual than the quirks everyone develops to get through the day as pleasantly as possible. Given a little good will and a lot of mad improvisation (and not too many strains on our dignity), we can all make it. Or so says this giddy, unpretentious and entirely lovable film in its quite original...