Word: gracefully
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...dissatisfactions that dare not speak their name in all the earth's Waxahachies, betray themselves to his wife (Lindsay Grouse) by the way they handle a deck of cards in a rummy game. Best of all is the Communion service that climaxes the movie, where, with amazing grace, Benton moves almost imperceptibly from reality to fantasy in order to find for his people the kind of reconciliation with their fates that he sought for himself by making this film...
Cathy suddenly giggles again, clearly at some random thought, as she asks, "Did you ever read those really old books about girls' boarding schools? Grace Harlow or someone? There were a lot of them at a resort we used to go to. Anyway, there were always four girls. One beautiful and rich and wicked, and one big and fat and jolly. That's Lavinia and Peg, of course...
...rose in the ranks to become his country's highest military officer in 1977. The marshal is known to have clashed on several occasions with the conservative Soviet military establishment, and the consensus among the British government's top Soviet specialists was that he had fallen from grace primarily because of a longstanding dispute over weaponry. Ogarkov, they said, had strongly argued the case for concentrating Soviet efforts on the development of advanced weapons that could match the American arsenal, while the majority of Soviet commanders still favored building up a huge numerical predominance in arms...
...scene's emotional point, too many claims on an audience's indulgence. Yet no matter how far the mind strays, one never feels safe in letting it slip away completely. You can never tell when Rowlands is going to do something astonishing. It is the unpredictable grace and goofiness of her behavior, the subtle complexity of emotions she generates, that finally overcome all obstacles to enthrallment...
...used as a populist club to pulverize the old elitist verities: grace, wit, precision, proportion, coherence. No walking of the fine narrative line for the apostles of anarchy, whose police-siren song goes like this: Wake up, pal! Get out of your fusty drawing room and hit the streets! The Aristotelian unities are dead! Modern life is chaos, and this time around, art is life set to a whomping backbeat that never lets up. When society has fallen apart, don't pick up the pieces, just admire them where they fall...